Derelict Thursday

I didn't quite manage to find the time to explore the area behind the labs, which was where I had been intending to search out a Derelict Thursday picture, but instead, caught this. Its in the same run down area I pass through on the way to work. The street round the front of the shops is kept reasonably clean, but round the back, the rubbish gets dumped when the bins are not big enough (now the collections are once a fortnight), and the area often has a few empties tossed casually aside on the way home from the night before.

This is modern dereliction. Not the kind where time has taken its toll, but the one where society has taken its toll, leaving those holed up in the streets around facing a soulless grind of a life of struggle.