Growing with the flow

By Wordwatcher

Ghostly from the past

This used to be the Scottish Office and years ago my dad worked here. It's due for demolition at some point I believe and it's a strange, slightly desolate sight covered in chicken wire. Walking past today I had a couple of flashbacks. Occasionally, after I moved to Edinburgh, I would meet dad here for lunch and he would treat me to a feed in the staff canteen. Just what an impoverished student needed! Then, on a demo against the Poll Tax outside the building I remember wincing every time someone came out, in case it was my dad!
It's a pretty brutal building and I don't think my dad was particularly enthusiastic about his time there but it has a presence about it, even when empty.

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