Warrenby Today.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Villages that disappeared: Warrenby
Once a teeside village situated half a mile outside of the coastal town of Redcar. The village was pretty much in its heyday from the late 1800's up to the mid 70's when the village was actually 'knocked down' to make way for a works road leading to ICI and British Steel. It once had its own train station and a 'little shop' and if you look carefully you can still see one or two old buildings still standing today now doubling as a derelict mechanics or an old Bus garage.. Running along side the now disappeared village is nothing but marshland. Its all very eerie.
Warrenby Today.
Warrenby Today.
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It does sound eerie. An equivalent of that in NZ would be the town of Roxburgh which now lies buried underneath a dam. They built the new town just next to it.
ReplyDeleteOops, I meant Cromwell - early morning confusion. That inland route is quite an eerie drive actually. It just seems like a long run of dams and little else with these couple of small towns dotted in between.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ReplyDelete"Rhoscrowther is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 9 km west of Pembroke, near the south shore of Milford Haven.
The placename is Welsh and perhaps means "crwth-player's moor"[1]. The church is on a very early Christian site. It was the "bishop-house" of the cantref of Penfro, and was originally called Llandegman. It is dedicated to the early Saint Decuman.
Much of the parish, and almost all the medieval village except the church, was cleared with the establishment of the BP oil terminal in 1961 immediately south of the village, and the Texaco refinery in 1964 immediately to the north."
More recently a fire or two at the refinery led to the evacuation of most of the remaining folk, leaving a largely-overgrown shell dreaming to itself amid the ever-present hum of Texaco's nearby machine-city. Arrival there late at night is as close to a Borley Rectory moment as I've had.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1337830
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1339940
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1339267
A town that no longer exists. How fucking Hauntological can you get?
ReplyDeleteGood post indeed. I'm trying to imagine what it must have been like for someone who grew up in Warrenby, only to experience the downfall? A whole community wiped out. Desperately sad.
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