Notes From College Bank is a project that documents the College Bank buildings in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Known locally as ‘The Seven Sisters’, College Bank is formed of seven high-rise social housing blocks, four of which have come under recent threat of demolition.
Drawing from found imagery and photographs taken by my late Grandfather, M J Burgess who like me grew up in Rochdale, I worked with past and present residents to create a collective record of life in and around College Bank.
The project was initially funded by Rochdale Culture Co-op and later received further support from Ebor Studios, from which I was able to design and self-publish a photobook to document and preserve the project.