The Rise, Fall & Rebirth of a Giant

You're obsessed!!! But in a good way! Yes, that word you used, 'progress' worries me. Why can't we have both the industrial & post industrial architecture, side by side? You sense that building is doomed, don't you?

Thanks, Billy.
I do

Is that all we are condo's and shopping malls?
Progress is the death of once beautiful history.
I like your posts today. 😊

It sure is.
Thanks, girl.

Progress is sometimes necessary, but usually benefits those who are greedy. They seem to win every time. Photos are the only link to the past besides memories.

Yes, they are.
I’m fortunate to have these.

the Earth is interactive and full of ancient magic she has been refurbished or reborn many times neither human,angel or being will destroy utterly the Father's masterpiece His crowning jewel she will renew after some of the powers that be are permanently evicted those who glory in destroying her... creating foul spirits with their lust, anger, bigotry the demons are afraid of only one being that is our Father...great write...

Thank you, Brenda💕

This is so full of truth very well written! I applaud you!

Thank you so much, My friend.

Always a pleasure, my friend!

I echo DragonBlood's comment.

It does remind me of the flax mill in my nearest town (Shrewsbury, England) which has last decade and more been restored and refurbished to become not a shopping mall/condo but a community hub with workshops for small businesses. Built 1790s it is claimed to be the oldest 'skyscraper' in the world.

Ooh, such history.

Steel framed, the ancestor of such structures as that in your pictures.

The mill switched in the 1880s after flax milling ceased to a brewery maltings, then from the 1980s became derelict, so this building has experienced a rebirth but happily without a literal structural fall.

I love that. Thank you for sharing, Sir Solomon.

you really piqued my interest with those pictures of yours.. Im dying to go and check out this place... its the rise and fall of anything M... everything has its time in history... until it has to step aside and make way for the new... we call progress

Unfortunately, that’s the truth.
Glad my photos piqued your interest.

I love this. In many ways, progress is the death of innocence.

That is the truth.

Why can't progress be built upon history, every dollar is built upon a penny. Lot of these building because of material quality and craftmanship could easily be renovated, redesigned, and repurposed. We continue to destroy the forest while filling the landfills with wood products. Tight work Lady

I totally agree. It’s appalling.
Thank you, Me.

Breaks my heart when they tear down history for more mundane sameness...My city has a history of deliberately allowing buildings to decay so they can declare them a blight & tear them down. So sad

It truly is.
Someday we will just be one giant cookie cutter world.

Truely amazing work, Mary. Fia xoxo

Thank you, Fia