I am part of a collective of photographers who operate under the banner ‘equals’ and the group blog is at http://equalsphoto.wordpress.com/

We met up on Monday to finalise our activities for a 2 week residency that we are taking up in Ipswich Town Hall. As a part of that  activity we are producing work that is ephemeral. I decided to re-visit work I shot 41 years ago and re-process the negatives digitally. I have put together 6 images printed at A2 then framed. They can be seen on my site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/galleries/landscapes/liverpoolecho/ . I went searching on the web for any correlatory images and found the site http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/ so I contacted the owner, Colin and he very kindly sent me some images of the same building in one case that I will show alongside my work. He has kindly posted 3 of my images on his blog so I am looking forward to getting confirmation of what street the Health Clinc was actually shot in. It was demolished within 24 hours of my shoot and every street looked the same around that part of Liverpool at the time.

Looking at some of the houses due for demolition one cannot help wondering that if they had been in Spitalfields or Islington that they would still be standing and full of professionals. The Hospital under construction at the time was riddled with delays if my memory serves me right but is now scheduled to be pulled down. Good value for money for the taxpayer then- over £1million per year for the lifetime not counting running costs. What an eyesore though.

41 years is a blink of an eyelid in the great scheme of things. I much preferred to look of the housing that was pulled down. Broken communities will never be replaced but thankfully tower block lessons have been learned so at least that mistake will not be made again, but what have they built in Leeds……….