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During the year 2000 D J Clark built a visual record of the Lancaster & Morecambe district using photographs and information submitted by those that feature in the pictures. The project was conducted in association with Lancaster Museum and has been archived for future generations to look back at the district at the turn of the new Millennium. For more information on the project visit the information page. If you find a caption is wrong or there is a fault with the page please e-mail D J Clark.

Date: February 2nd 2000
Location: Parliament Street

Photographer's Diary

2nd February - Fire at Armitage Publicity

I was just getting ready to go to bed when Maggie came home. "It's all happening in town" she told me. I had prepared an emergency camera bag for such occasions. It was thrust into my car and I sped off to Parliament Street. Arriving there I found Fire engines, police cars a bit of tape and the odd passer-by. I shot a few frames and then realised my film was too slow. I uprated and then shot for fun. There was not too much to photograph but once I had uprated I might as well finish the film.

Armitage publicity was the home of a printing company which had run into financial problems and closed. The place had since been occupied by squatters and had a short life expectancy. Mummers of "insurance job" could be heard by the bystanders now cynical of fires in disused property.

I left after ten minutes.

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