About this blog


Clay Cross is a former mining town in North East Derbyshire, UK. In January 2010, work started on a major redevelopment project in the town centre. GMI Property Co. Ltd. have asked me to create a photographic record of the development, and how it changes the landscape, culture and people of the town. This blog is likely to be a diary of my activities over the next year or so.

For more information on the development see the quick links below. I've also created a Set on Flickr, where you will find a selection of the images I produce, and a Clay Cross Flickr group - see the quick links.

Wednesday 8 September 2010













I did a quick site visit a week ago Saturday, the day after the open day. This is the new Tesco front door. I'll be going back in three months to see the great Clay Cross public disappearing through it, possibly.
There was a smell of blacktop in the air, always a sign that things are moving towards a completion date. The new link road from Bridge Street to the rear of Somerfields is in and being used by the public. A lot of the floor in the new Tesco is in to finished level. Blacktop is going down at the A61 junction. The car park is taking shape. And there are now two big information hoardings with a site plan, a mural and (yes) my digger image, with credits (see Flickr). Thanks, folks, what a great advert for geoff hicks photography.

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