Old tea shop, a photo from Lancashire, England

Photographer's Note

I wasn't going to put this on but then I kind of like it. It is an old tea shop opposite the fun fair photo I did last week. It just made a sorry sight when you saw these two in the same area, no longer used and abandoned. One day these will be torn down and just how many people will have a record of these two buildings? Not many I guess, (I'm not surprised I hear you say) but just as the slum pictures of the 19th century look fantastic now, these may well one day hold such a place.... Or maybe not!!

Just one thing. I know I always say buildings should be shot head on, well it's just that this one had a better look overall from this view.

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Rumblestripe (308) 2006-12-09 4:41

I like this photo. It speaks to me of a forgotten past like old garages and tumbledown sheds on abandoned allotments.

Good social documentary.

bantonbuju (51815) 2006-12-09 11:37

love it all the way, i still keep in my mind that kiosk at the seaside you posted the other day, this one of today is in line with that other one, and as such deserves my full appreciation, mark;
this is a photostory in a real sense;
bravo!
j.

ndb1958 (9289) 2006-12-09 12:43

I kind of like rotten buildings like this one and I likê photography about these places. There is a certain mood what I like. Good atmosphere. It was good to post this one,
have a nice weekend,
Nino

scalerman (26900) 2006-12-09 15:27

Mark: a bleak, moody, atmospheric shot. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to tour the American West and shoot ghost-towns in BW. Just great stuff, again, regards, c

designsoul (17843) 2006-12-09 17:55

LOVE IT, Mark! Continuation of the Jarmush theme... fantastic. I am glad you have posted it, it is marvellously bizarre and touching; JUG of TEA for 1.50... I wonder how much it would be at Starbucks now... Oh, keep going back here if you can, and take more of it. It is a super photo-op... perhaps someone will walk by (or Kizzi?) that might add another strangness to this Stranger than Paradise spot. Really great!
Hello to Kizzi too! I hope she smiles when she hears it!
sasa

cobbydale (1958) 2006-12-10 7:58

Hi Mark,

I like these shots of crumbling buildings in Morecambe. They caight my interest when last there; I have one of a deserted hotel with all broken windows (but not very good technically as a shot to post) that I think is very near to where you took this.

What is happening to the place, I thought it was meant to be on the up?

cheers Leon.

snunney (130967) 2006-12-12 9:08

Hello Mark,
Good shot full of nostalgia and well worth taking for historical purposes.

delnaja (2056) 2006-12-12 15:50

a desolte place.. but with the blue adds happiness : )
Love the light...

zizzer77 (721) 2006-12-14 4:46