barriers are put up, the factory is no more. It’s turning into a building site
Middle roof being dismantled
Architect’s drawing, would be better shown 3D at an angle. The design has been partially followed
the air’s full of brick-dust
a dramatic moment. I was lucky to capture it from our bedroom window. Like much of the construction carried out here, it was dangerous. Long ladders were used, instead of cherry-pickers, just as I’ve seen them do in India. Not surprisingly, the construction workers were themselves Indian.
The owner, I forget his name, showing one of the workers how to dismantle rusted joints, at a guess. They say that he paid a million pounds to Wooster and Williams
Scaffolding is being put up everywhere
The previous main building is being widened, so as to accommodate an ensuite room facing east and west, with corridor between
as it looks today, courtesy of Google maps street view. I could photograph it myself, of course …
… and I did get a snapshot yesterday evening, when the light was fading.
a wayfarer’s notes 
Now updated with an extra photo
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Good to see a building being restored and reused. Here in the USA it’d be tear down a perfectly fine building that was built better than those of today and replace it with modern cheap (but financilly expensive) construction.
(wow! is that a run on sentence!)
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