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.

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

I'd heard Sorrells and the spiritualist church had been demolished, so I went down early this morning. And there they were. Gone. Also, you could see across from Bridge Street to the Methodist church on Market Street, which you never could before. About a quarter of the big spoil tip has gone, presumably down to the Biwater site. I met a bloke from Ireland who was working for a site contractor. He said he was going back to ******* Ireland after, because there were no ******* jobs in England now, it was all Poles and Lithuanians, it was ******* Thatcher's fault, destroying the ******* working class.

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