{"id":1116,"date":"2010-03-18T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2015-03-29T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T15:50:48","slug":"watch-victorian-birmingham-get-flattened-in-time-lapse-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/watch-victorian-birmingham-get-flattened-in-time-lapse-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Birmingham gets flattened: time-lapse video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BeforeIn the 1960s and 70s, amateur snapper Derek Fairbrother made over 20 photographic time-lapse sequences showing the demolition of old buildings and their replacement by new buildings and road systems in Birmingham’s city centre.<\/p>\n

Gasp as delightful Victorian Gothic buildings in Chamberlain Square with real architectural worth get crushed into dust and sigh as vast slabs of civic concrete go up in their place.<\/p>\n

We’ve been documenting the demise of equally beautiful buildings in the Brixton history<\/a> part of the site, and it’s sad to see what’s replaced some of the fine workmanship of the past.<\/p>\n

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Birmingham timelapse<\/a> from 7inch cinema<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.
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\nMore:<\/strong> 360 degree interactive panorama of Chamberlain Square<\/a>
\nBirmingham – photo feature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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