Sunday 21 July 2013
Gothic Bury (Lancashire): The Bottom of Hornby Street
The bottom of Hornby Street is another part of my hometown, Bury which has some surprisingly interesting Gothic-type imagery provided by the dark buildings there. These buildings seem to stand out at sundown:
I've been told that these buildings stand near where the old populated area of 'Paradise' used to be, where my father's side of the family come from. The building below looks as if it might well have been a church in the past, but, if so, it hasn't been one for many a year:
Yes, I think that the bottom of Hornby Street is a dark and mysterious place, holding echoes of the past, of what my hometown once was.
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