100 Hardgrave Road

I've posted twice about this place in Hardgrave Road; once when they knocked the house down except for the facade (here) and once, not so long ago, to show how local artists have used it as a canvas (here). Friends of ours used to live here. This week, the builders are out the back working hard, pouring concrete slabs over what was once the back yard. A place of lazy parties, neighbours talking over low fences, swings in trees, wild flowers and herb gardens. I still haven't worked out what the point of keeping the facade was and what they are going to do with it once the new buildings behind take shape. This is taken from the back...

Paste-ups, slogans and spray paint have spread like weeds, adorning both the outside walls and the remaining area inside.

I get the feeling that it's living on borrowed time so I'd better get a few more snaps in before the newly-poured concrete takes over and the developers commit a neatness. Shame, really.