This card depicts a real corner of Old Swan, Liverpool — a view from a bedroom window that existed from roughly 1996 until the mid-2010s, when the site was demolished.
At the centre stands the old Blockbuster Video store, gone now, replaced by a Dreams and a Tile Mountain. But the building was never really the subject. When Blockbuster was finally demolished, the view opened up to reveal things hidden for years — the main tower of the Meat and Fish Market on Prescot Road, and beyond it, the tower of the old Newsham Hospital in Newsham Park. Absence restoring what absence had taken.
To the right of the Blockbuster stands an elm tree on Elms House Road — one of three surviving elms on a road named after a house long since demolished. Months were spent looking for elm trees without realising one had been visible from that window the whole time.
Behind the store, the ash trees marking the grounds of Allenby Square nursery — a place attended in childhood, demolished now, the trees cut down in preparation for development. Between them, the tower of St Anne’s Stanley Church on Cheadle Avenue. And on the horizon, the clock tower of the old hospital in Walton, always visible from this spot.
This is a landscape of things that were. Some gone before they were noticed. Some gone while they were being watched.
Printed on smooth, sturdy premium card stock with rich colour and fine detail. Blank inside for your own message. Comes with an envelope. 5 × 5 inch square format.
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