The corner of Wellington Street and Mount Street. Northampton House in the background is dark and monolithic.* Everything else now gone and for over 40 years has been marked by a rough patch of waste ground, the name of which forms the picture title.
The fence at the front was also an important component of the photograph. Forming a barrier to the past, representing the impossibility of going back to see it in reality.
*the original photograph had a degree of scaffolding that I thought wasn’t domineering enough.
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