Belle Vue No More

A chance trip last Friday took me past this sad but all too familiar sight and I had the tugging impulse to capture it then but didn't. So I headed back today for another look.

In another lifetime this was a regular lunchtime haunt as we worked in the hospital that is now gradually consuming the area that the Belle Vue stands on. I have many memories of birthdays, leaving do's, Christmas lunches, Steak toasties, Robert Plant on the juke box, good times, bad times. Cold days in the bar, hot days in the garden. A little bit sad that this will probably soon just be another clinic - or a car park.