Ferrier Estate 2

... But on a sunny day, you'll find that the place has a different character. Lots of flats, almost whole blocks are boarded up, this Estate that must have housed about 10000 flats, according to a CPO nailed to a lampost, is down to about 50 owner occupiers, and there must be a similar number of renting tenants, all due to be jettisoned. Already the place is becoming overgrown and nature is coming back. Barely five miles from the middle of London, with its own railway station, and they managed to get the social aspect of the place so wrong, paying far too little attention to building communities, that no-one wanted to live there anymore. Future shock, culture clash, call it what you will, the outcome of throwing too many people together in too short a space of time ultimately meant that the whole massive estate of nine tower blocks and many more low rise, is practically empty. The Estate was 'system built' - a factory was built on-site to make the concrete panels from which the blocks of flats were made, and they all went up looking pretty similar. On this particular day when I took the pictures, I decided against any internal photos, I'll leave those to the Urban Ex people like 28 days later, for two reasons. 1. Its still currently someones home, they might spook me, I might spook them, 2. Proper urban ex people will do a much better job of the insides when demolition kicks in.

There is a sad feel to some of these photos - I'd do anything for a flat in London, and here are 9950 of them all boarded up!