The bed for a new railway line is constructed
The Demolition of the Bacon Factory, Ipswich, Suffolk - 20th February 2013
The no-man's-land inbetween railway tracks and the rest of the normal world is something of a perennial favourite: big old-school engineering mixed with rust, gentle decay and seedy dereliction - a strange limbo zone which provides something of a window into the soul of a country. Thus, the twice-a-week commute in and out of London provides an occasional diversion where the passing of time is marked, over the weeks, by the coming and going of graffiti or the occasional violent destruction of a trackside building (currently the old Marconi building in Chelmsford and here with the old bacon factory on the outskirts of Ipswich). It's also where a simmering under-the-radar war is waged between graffiti taggers and The Man, especially along the tracks between Bethnal Green and Liverpool Street Station, where the brick walls were all sprayed a uniform dark brown just before the outbreak of the Olympics, and where new spots of silver-sprayed graffiti are re-appearing like the tentative first flowers of spring.
next album: An Anti-Fascist March, Mill Road, Cambridge - 23rd February 2013
previous album: Music at Amandines and a High Lodge Bike Ride, Diss and Brandon - 17th February 2013
The old bacon factory
A tangle of metal outside the derelict factory
A pneumatic hammer gets to work
The old factory is demolished
More digger action
Another large pile of tangled metal
Other random dereliction near Hadleigh Road
A load of derelict lorry trailers
Loads of cable reels in the Ipswich Goods Yard
The London Road bridge
An American Class 70 loco, 70001
One of the Class 66 'Sheds' in the goods yard
Class 90 90044 in Freightliner livery
Budleia grows over everything at Bethnal Green
A view over Bethnal Green
Outline graffiti on a bridge
Rails set in wooden sleepers
Rails reflected in the side of the train
The old Truman pub by the side of the railway
A side street near Liverpool Street
City of Paranoia, by Hack Doktor
More silver graffiti
The train passes through the tunnels
There's a nice sunset at the Stuston S bends
Some knob has dumped a load of tiles
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The bed for a new railway line is constructed
The bed for a new railway line is constructed
The old bacon factory
A tangle of metal outside the derelict factory
A pneumatic hammer gets to work
The old factory is demolished
More digger action
Another large pile of tangled metal
Other random dereliction near Hadleigh Road
A load of derelict lorry trailers
Loads of cable reels in the Ipswich Goods Yard
The London Road bridge
An American Class 70 loco, 70001
One of the Class 66 'Sheds' in the goods yard
Class 90 90044 in Freightliner livery
Budleia grows over everything at Bethnal Green
A view over Bethnal Green
Outline graffiti on a bridge
Rails set in wooden sleepers
Rails reflected in the side of the train
The old Truman pub by the side of the railway
A side street near Liverpool Street
City of Paranoia, by Hack Doktor
More silver graffiti
The train passes through the tunnels
There's a nice sunset at the Stuston S bends
Some knob has dumped a load of tiles