Streetview
In South Kirkby on Tuesday, I passed a derelict building and took this photograph:- I had no idea what purpose the building had once served so I searched Google Streetview for some answers. You may not be aware of this but within Streetview you can often find imagery from different years and for South Kirkby you can look at the place from seven different points in time - beginning in April 2009 and moving on to April 2021. Here's an image from April 2009. The car park is rammed and the place is clearly thriving. By August 2011, the place seems much quieter but the grounds are still nicely maintained:- Now we have reached 2016 and the almost abandoned property is up for sale Moving on to April 2021, the site is now neglected and security barriers have been erected in the forlorn hope of keeping vandals and other ne'er-do-wells out Below I have snipped the top left hand corner of the current Streetview scene. Each of those white dots on the scale allows visitor...