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Moneycentre, Plymouth, 2021

A quiet urban street flanked by mid-rise office buildings and shops, including a sushi restaurant and an amplifier shop with a colourful shutter. A few people walk on the pavement. One car is parked on the street under a clear blue sky.

I was reminded to dig this out of the photo library by this week’s West Country Modernism round-up. The Moneycentre (MWT, 1975), over the years home to various financial and insurance institutions, survived a demolition threat in 2018, changed hands multiple times, and has now been purchased by Homes England.

My own interest in architecture has only developed in the last few years, but clearly something attracted me to it back in 2021 – perhaps the geometrical simplicity of the tiled walls and tinted windows, as seen in this sunlit shot.

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Glazed staircase in New Mills, 2020

I delved into my photo library looking for something else, but instead I found this glazed staircase at the Swizzels Matlow factory in New Mills in intra-lockdown 2020.

A narrow canal runs beside old brick and glass factory buildings under a partly cloudy sky. The water reflects the buildings and sky. A dirt path lines the canal, with greenery and a corrugated metal fence on the right side.
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