Buildings
Buildings written up in full
A catalogue record describes a photograph. An entry makes an argument about a building — claim, evidence, confidence, rights, and a list of what is still missing. Slower to write, and the only way an archive stays trustworthy as it grows.
The entries
109 Church Street, and the house that stood there before it
There is a photograph in the collection, older than anything else we hold, showing a rendered range with a tiled roof and an adjoining stone gable. A sign hangs above the door. Two men are in the frame. The building is not there now.
Probable
Do you know a building here?
Who lived there, when it changed, what was pulled down. A building nobody remembers is a building we cannot reconstruct.