Claywood flats: photos (c) Mozaz
During the period 2000-2003 tenants of three tower blocks in Sheffield
were decanted to make way for the demolition of the flats which had been
built by Gleason during 1969-70. Demolishing council housing was all
the rage in those days, because it would push up property prices, and
rising property prices were an integral part of the 'Perpetual Motion
Machine' that drove anglo-saxon Capitalism, until 2008. The tenants were
given 'home-loss' grants to lessen the impact of moving, and as a result
many left furniture and kitchen ware behind. There was even an abonded
coffin in a room which had been the roost by pigeons for several months.
Visiting the flats was quite interesting. The approach to the doors
was covered in shattered glass and other debris, and higher up the rooms
alternated between those full of pigeon droppings, and some with comfortable
beds and furniture which looked quite habitable.
There was also evidence of hard drug use. In my whole thirty years of
travelling America, Asia, and Europe I had never seen such surprising
amounts of hard drug paraphernalia, although I had once witnessed a
tourist injecting heroin in a Teheran hotel (where drug possession then
carried the death penalty).
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