Scenes from around Modbury

This is what it looks like now (in the 2000s) around the area where I grew up in the 1970s.  Modbury was farmland that became used for housing around the 1960s.  There used to be a few moderately large fields between some of the blocks of houses, now there's only a few bits of space left.  Nearby Golden Grove used to be all fields until it was snaffled up for housing around the 1980s, now it's become battery housing.  These photos were taken by myself and a friend using my digital Polaroid camera over 2001–2002.

Part of our local creek, where we used to play as kids, though it used to be more feral

As ever, our creek seems to be a dumping ground, be it pollution or stolen goods

We still have some areas that look a bit like you're entering a country town

It used to look more like this, with some fields between housing blocks

The local reserve, a vast space of nothing save for a paltry playground (behind the camera).  Space is nice, very nice.  But a few more park benches, maybe a picnic table, and equipment for kids older than toddlers might be an idea.

Another part of the creek, nature struggling against attempts at landscaping

A bit of almost natural landscape

A field of weeds

Around the local water reservoir

Around the local water reservoir