The Old Has Gone!

Another landmark has gone....a Victorian pub which later served as The Liberal Club and a night club is being demolished.
A workman watches on, his passivity contrasting with the destructive power of the machinery.
In time something new will be built on this land, who knows when! The plot of land across the road has been left as rubble for a couple of years, and I wonder which will be built on first?
Behind the Youth Centre is visible. If housing is built on this brownfield site, will any of the youth who attended this club ever live there?
Demolishing a building alters the feel of the street, the view from Mount Pleasant is unsettling, as it reveals features of buildings that we are unfamiliar with. Our complacency is shaken. It must be spring...

[jo fagan]

Good photo. Hopefully there will be a good ending to the story..eventually!

[Michele York]

So sad...I hate to see the old buildings go, only because I don't really care much for the modern ones. The newer ones don't have as much character.

[Judith Greenwood]

Nice shot with all the dust - I know what you mean about not building though - the lovely Victorian school (that was) down the road is still a scrubby patch of grass.

[Karen Mitchell]

I hate it when old buildings are demolished, all that history and character - just gone in a moment :(

[Carolyn White]

Great capture! I hate to see old buildings go!

[Helen Batson]

That's another landmark gone. Once the housing market picks up I expect they'll build another modern eye sore for more people to live in.

[Rose Humphrey]

@aitch As it is a brownfield site I think that it will be very easy to obtain planning permission, and as the old building was 3 stories, then I anticipate the new ones will be also.
@jolie37 @shellinvalpo @judithg @minxymissk @cjwhite It was nothing significant architectually, just a building that escaped the wholesale redevelopment of the town centre in the 60's & early 70's.
Thanks all for your comments :)