The church of which I'm part was partly destroyed by incendiaries in 1941 ... it was rebuilt after the war, but in haste, and we have struggled to maintain the building ever since, because of the damp that now infests the walls. Long before I came to worship here, the church have been working towards redeveloping the site ... and this week, the project began:
We'd been to a meeting on the site for the developer to take some publicity pictures before the demolition started ... not so good in the pouring rain, but the photographer coped marvellously! Then on to somewhere else for refreshments and a radio interview. It was on the way home that we saw the first piece being taken out of the side of the church ... so I stopped to get some pictures. I could have watched for hours, it was fascinating
A small crowd soon gathered, and DH spent a while talking to folk explaining what's happening, while I snapped away with the camera:
You could hear maisonery falling inside the church with a tremendous noise ... all very dramatic. I expect it will come down quite quickly now
Lots of memories for different folk, but a millstone round the neck of the church for many years now. It will be some time before we can meet on site again, in a new church surrounded by flats, but the church continues as we meet each week in a local school. We're not simply biding our time, waiting for a cosy, warm and dry building in which to meet - while we're in the school we have contact with an area we don't usually visit ... how to make the best of it, that's the question!
We'd been to a meeting on the site for the developer to take some publicity pictures before the demolition started ... not so good in the pouring rain, but the photographer coped marvellously! Then on to somewhere else for refreshments and a radio interview. It was on the way home that we saw the first piece being taken out of the side of the church ... so I stopped to get some pictures. I could have watched for hours, it was fascinating
A small crowd soon gathered, and DH spent a while talking to folk explaining what's happening, while I snapped away with the camera:You could hear maisonery falling inside the church with a tremendous noise ... all very dramatic. I expect it will come down quite quickly now
Lots of memories for different folk, but a millstone round the neck of the church for many years now. It will be some time before we can meet on site again, in a new church surrounded by flats, but the church continues as we meet each week in a local school. We're not simply biding our time, waiting for a cosy, warm and dry building in which to meet - while we're in the school we have contact with an area we don't usually visit ... how to make the best of it, that's the question!
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