Over the years, I have tried to record some of the crud that people leave behind, forget or just plain lose, in the hope that one day I will be able to make sense of it all.
Here the first in an occasional series of 'finds'.
(and no, I didn't keep any of these items. There isn't a magical Bagpuss shop full of half eaten chocolate logs and discarded wigs)
AKA Gleaning Canterbury / celebrating destruction and rubbish / Cataloguing the things most people want to forget / temporary history, temporary art / abandoned heritage / the changing face and backside of Kent / "the dreamlife of debris"/ when it's gone, it's really gone...
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
LOCAL HABITAT UNDER THREAT
No don't worry, it's not a real habitat with anything living in it, just the building that used to house the Canterbury branch of Habitat. Back in the summer, there was a sudden surge of activity as building contractors begain to pick away at the building, eventually pulling its guts out and removing all trace of what once was.
Chances are the opening day of the new Aldi will attract more people than the Police commissioner elections....
Sadly all that is opening there is a new Aldi store, but in honour of this momentous occasion, here is a selection of photographs chronicling the wiping out of this rare species of over-priced house tat. Needless to say, I stopped taking photos when the destruction stopped...
Chances are the opening day of the new Aldi will attract more people than the Police commissioner elections....
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