
Epilogue — The Demise of the Quarry Hill Flats
- Publisher
- RRB Photobooks
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781838268350
- Specifications
- Hardcover
First Edition
100 pages
Standard and Special Editions
Over 40 new images of the abandonment and demolition of the Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds
Epilogue: The Demise of the Quarry Hill Flats by Peter Mitchell acts as a sequel to his earlier publication Memento Mori, which documented the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds. The Quarry Hill Flats had been a vast housing estate in Leeds built in the mid-nineteen-thirties as part of what was called at the time a 'great social experiment', accommodating an entire community of about three thousand people; by the mid-eighties they were condemned and the demolition began. Where Memento Mori looked at the impact of that redevelopment, Epilogue contains over forty new images documenting the abandonment and subsequent demolition of the site, adding a poignant final chapter to the earlier book and its later facsimile edition. Largely eschewing the archival material seen in Memento Mori, Epilogue takes a more narrative approach to telling this final part of the story; Mitchell is again the lone wanderer of empty corridors and rubble fields, recording in his colour view what it looks like when a piece of municipal idealism, made for thousands, is taken away. 'I photograph dying buildings,' Mitchell has said, 'and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I got to it.'