The demolition of Quarry Hill flats

A new book from photographer Peter Mitchell:

Titled Epilogue – The Demise of the Quarry Hill Flats, the book contains nearly 50 photographs of Quarry Hill, a large housing estate in Leeds built in the 1930s as part of a "great social experiment" to accommodate an entire community of three thousand people. By the 1970s, both the vision and the flats were crumbling, and the decision was made to tear them down. The notion of Utopia underpins the narrative of Quarry Hill, from its visionary beginnings to its decline and final dying breath.

"I photograph dying buildings, and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I got to it," Mitchell says of the series. "Times change, and I know there was no point in keeping Quarry Hill Flats. But what it stood for might have been worth keeping."