title Bramford Dereliction and Marconi Demolition, Chelmsford - 12th March 2013 intro Thanks to the local council somehow failing to list the iconic Marconi House, factory and building 720 of the New Street Works in Chelmsford, the buildings - constructed in 1912 and said to be the world's first purpose-built radio factory - are implausibly trashed in order to build of a bunch of generic flats and apartments. That shocking sight is bookended by a very wet day in Diss, and the slow ongoing demolition of the buildings in and around the old British Xylotol site in Bramford, near Manningtree. imgp9206 Harry looks all innocent with the remote imgp9208 Harry - the Baby Gabey imgp9209 It's good weather for ducks imgp9211 The grass is almost as one with the Mere imgp9212 Wet brick paviers in Norfolk House Yard imgp9214 Wet shiny bricks imgp9215 Harry reaches up in Amandines imgp9217 A funky fish reserved sign imgp9218 The New Street factory entrance is covered up imgp9220 The guts of the Marconi site are ripped out imgp9224 The space where history used to be imgp9228 A pile of crushed concrete imgp9230 The iconic Marconi Building in Chelmsford imgp9231 The derelict water tower near Manningtree station imgp9232 A view over toward Manningtree imgp9235 A derelict hut on the mud flats imgp9236 The tide is out on the river imgp9240 Derelict factory buildings east of the line imgp9244 Graffiti on the walls imgp9246 Pipes and derelict offices imgp9247 Smashed windows in a stone building imgp9251 Snow on the roofs of derelict factory buildings imgp9253 Steel pipes on the other side of the railway imgp9255 Another derelict factory in Bramford imgp9257 Wasteland, and some piles of brick imgp9258 The partly cleared site at Bramford imgp9264 The edge of dereliction, on the river