Places and Spaces - how areas can once have been something terrible now fun

[pontipinemum]

I don't think my title explains what I am thinking very well at all!

Basically, do you ever find it odd that a space we use now in a fun/ good way was once a place of sadness/ fear.

I'll give my example, yesterday we went to an old Spire/ tower. There is a lovely kids park, a nice easy walk around with the pram. Also there are lovely fields that have been planted with loads of wild flowers.

But there is also a part that has a remembrance area, with a nice statue, a poem and a plaque that says the place was the burial ground for the poor from the work houses for nearly 100 years.

It's just a weird feeling that that same place used to hold such sadness. Now it is a happy place. Possibly even descants of those buried there play there now and don't know.

Do you know what I am rambling on about?

Well, I live next door to a former Magdalen laundry. The buildings are still there, ruined (developers own it and have pp, but keep getting cold feet about the requirement to have a forensic archaeologist on site), but it’s essentially now an unofficial nature reserve, with an incredible diversity of habitats. Nature doesn’t care.

@SecondWoman oh wow! That building has stories. Nature does always take back over though. There was an episode of Keys to you Life on. I think it was with Joan Burton. They showed a baby home she had lived in, it is now luxury apartments. I don't think I could live there