Mill Hill flats, Blackburn, 2001, (demolished).
In the 1980s I wandered without any knowledge of history or photography...I just liked uncertain old buildings, flaking paint and wandering.
Forty odd years later - editing and sifting through negs and photos some of the buildings are no longer here. I took one photo (in 2001) of 'three high rise' flats from a moving train, but for years I hadn't a clue where it was.
In 2026 I joined Blackburn Past & Present Facebook page and queried the image - lots of people replied. It turned out to be 'Mill Hill' flats. A few months after the photo was taken the flats were demolished - with the help of locals it took me twenty five years to find that out!
I use a lot of b/w 35mm/120 roll films to repurpose / create layered images - I like the idea of an image for a different aesthetic - like adding a texture and giving it another perspective.
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