tarboat's photos with the keyword: housing

This terraced row on Ashbourne Road in Leek harks back to the days of cottage industry with a series of garret rooms on the top floor. These would have housed hand looms for weaving silk cloth. The long windows were designed to allow maximum light into the room. Since I took this photo most of the windows and doors have been replaced with plastic.

Speculative apartment developments such as these at Xian are typical of modern China. A massive building boom has caused every city to be surrounded by tower blocks built on borrowed money. The problem is that there are far more apartments than buyers/renters and vast numbers stand empty whilst yet more are built nearby. I can only see this ending in some sort of financial collapse in the building industry in China. For now it provides employment for thousands, probably millions.

This rather sad looking wedge shaped building is all that is left of the Rochdale Road tenements in Collyhurst. At one time this was a much larger block of flats stretching along Rochdale Road. I suspect that this portion survived as it has business premises on the ground floor whilst the rest did not.