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Day 52 – The Other Side
 

Day 52 – The Other Side

22nd February 2012

Liverpool city centre is lovely, busy, full of vibrant life and wealth but travel just a mile or so into the outskirts of the city and things are very different. These houses line the streets around Liverpool Football Club. The club bought them up with the view to building a new, bigger stadium. For now the money for this project has dried up and so row upon row of these houses sit there, rotting, boarded up, empty, scaring a local community that is clearly suffering terribly in the current economic climate. To me there is something truly wrong about all this….

boarded up houses in Liverpool

“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.” ~ Jello Biafra

Mollyxxx

2 Comment to “Day 52 – The Other Side”

  1. patty says:
    February 22, 2012 at 11:51 am

    i like the perspective in this shot and the grittyness, too… your info and quote are great, too, definitely adding to your work.

  2. Susi says:
    February 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    I reckoned it must be somewhere in the UK!! The houses looked so British :) . I’m going there soon. Not to Liverpool though.

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