Midland Railway Workshops.
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As a lad I grew up often rambling around abandoned decaying industrial buildings of eighteenth and nineteenth Britain. Such architecture has always held a fascination for me. The use of bricks, cast iron and steel allowed the builders to experiment for the sake of economy and function in ways that they didn’t with domestic buildings. Even then I had dreams of living in one of these huge spaces instead of the cramped pokey rooms that was my families lot.
These buildings in Midland are some of only a few of the remaining half dozen or so sites of nineteenth century Midland, the rest have succumbed to the vandalism of the wreckers in the name of progress. Fortunately these buildings have been saved to become part of a new precinct for higher education. Education was always part of the job for the men who worked here and wanted to better themselves through the accompanying Mechanics Institute. Here they could access further education and a skilled trade.
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