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Dudley Time Portal

Section loss of firm original enclosure - 210731 1403 Identity Section.png
Section loss of firm original enclosure
Added to Archive Thursday 21 October 2021
Experienced Saturday 31 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Season Summer
Type Text Drawing
Weather Cloudy
Themes Identity Past Architecture Broken Control Missing Shelter Change
What was/is/if What is

Has inspired

More-than-humanising data through sonification Sound artist Bill Laybourne invited Dudley time rebels to create a collective score inspired by street detectorist findings through noise making.
More tagged with type Text
Abundance of flowers welcoming everyone a
Big old building - 210731 1335 Big Things.png
(*imagining*) two Christmas spirited robins joining in with the festivities of the street, singing along with your Christmas joys. - 211110 1730 Hiding 3.png
Explore The History Of Site Voids - This will provide an opportunity to reimplement these to allow vertical green corridors to occur. Explore Vacant Buildings - To avoid damaging an already deteriorating high street, I aim only to take over vacant plots. Investigate the opportunity for Miyawaki planting - understand the conditions required to grow a sustainable material source on-site, including ground, water, and space conditions. It takes over a building that leads directly to an open space where a community hub is the centre of the thesis, offering education, community engagement and material celebration. - Ryan Cooksey Material Celebration Hub 1.png
Why put a multi-storey car park with access from the narrowest street in the town? - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
More tagged with theme Architecture
Space escapes thro' set back corner splay for traffic sightline has spoilt the street intimacy - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
This building has been picked because it is significant as it represents the language slang used in the local area. Not only that, the facade clearly looks worn and requires repair throughout. This is the best place to start as the locals would easily refer to it via slang. So when spreading the news of repair, people would instantly know which building it is. - Ryan Cooksey Building 1 Model 1.png
Motif / sign above G.P. Footwear not seen before - 210730 1515 Tiny Things.png
Cast iron railings good survival - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Seen as the heart of the town, Dudley High Street stretch- es from the Dudley ASDA, all the way up to the St. Edmund King & Martyr Church. Although, the street has seen better days. Along the High Street itself, there are 28 abandoned shop fronts, accounting for 1/5 shops being neglected. It is also home to a few of Dudley’s landmarks: The Drinking Fountain, a Grade II listed fountain, which had a portion of a £4.6 million funding from the HLF European 2015 funding go towards to its restoration (Richards, 2017). The Market Place is a fixed centre of trading and selling at the heart of the market square. It too benefited from the funding, allowing for permanent fixings. The Top Church, St. Thomas and St. Luke, overlooking the entire street, and most of the surrounding town itself. - Oscar Law Group 1.png
More tagged with theme Control
Space escapes thro' set back corner splay for traffic sightline has spoilt the street intimacy - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Drains - 210731 1403 Smell.png
Peeling paint on beautiful old windows - 210731 1050.jpg
Faded paint on strandboard - 210731 1050.jpg
Loss of firm enclosure but still just about maintains the spatial flow - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg