Tag: neglect
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The Last Engine in Caithness
The map remembers when the town was louder,when cranes cut a new skyline and houses multiplied.Children’s shoes lined paths to schools that stilled later,and the sea kept the same slow argument with the shore. They came for the work and stayed for the short bright years,for trades that taught hands new languages, for shops that…
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Decommissioning Caithness
Dounreay dismantled, piece by piece,reactors hushed, the glow at peace.Steel and concrete, stripped with care,a future planned in thinning air. And in the town, the same routine:doors shut quiet, streets go lean.Not radiation, but resignation,a slow embrace of ruination. They decommission shops like rods,pubs like turbines, hopes like gods.Every closure signed and stamped,as if decline…