Better Than Watching TV

In the 1960s a close knit community to the east of Freeman Street in Grimsby was dispersed and their homes cleared for the construction of six sixteen storey tower blocks or ‘Houses’; Albion, Bevan, Garibaldi, Nelson, Tennyson and Thesiger.

The last residents of the close knit community that developed were dispersed in 2017 and the towers demolished in 2018.

In 2024 the site remains derelict.

Better Than Watching TV is a series of photographs of the flats taken prior to and during the demolition, accompanied by the stories of those who lived and worked there.

Contains a space to write down your own memories, a secret bonus zine inside a sealed envelope and a QR code link to drone footage of the now vacant site of the flats.

40 pages ring bound
170gsm uncoated paper