Hardwick Place was once a street just off Garstang Road, Preston, near the bus station. Left for many years it has become something of a hybrid of liminal and adopted free space. It was quietly managed by locals who have put a few plants in near to their back yards. Bollards still line up and a sign throws a dated warning.
The image reminds me of a 'garden centre' in the centre of Manchester. An unlikely location, but something about it is reminiscent of Eugene Atget's Zone in Paris. Although both images conduct slightly separate issues about the paradigms of space they are collectively inhabiting the same debates of dilemmas that are cohesive to the arguments.
