Places I used to live

I've been lately thinking about places I used to live in, and how little I have photos of those places. You know, how you see something every day it's not worth photographing, but when you lose it you start wondering what it really looked like. Photos are great memory joggers, and I've been meaning to dig out some old photos for ages and put them up on Flickr. You know, just for my sake.

So in case you're interested, here are some photos of my old haunts. First some photos from Nottingham (taken in October 2004, just before we left to Canada) - we used to live there from 1997 to 2000 but most of that time I didn't even own a camera, let alone waste film on a place I saw every day. Then some photos of Southsea and Portsmouth - we lived there from 2002 to 2004, and moved from there to Vancouver. Most notably have a look at the set of photos there taken from the now demolished Tricorn Centre taken by Mikki when he visited us in March 2004 - it was voted as the ugliest building in Britain, and a great example of Brutalist architecture. In the words of Prince Charles: "You have to give credit to the Luftwaffe - when they destroyed our skyline, they at least replaced it with just rubble."

To my regret, I don't have any photos from Bishop's Stortford where we lived between Nottingham and Southsea - I did have a camera some of the time there, but as it goes with computers I lost most of those photos when my hard drive crashed. I'll have to dig out some paper photos sometime and see if I have anything at all left.

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