Solid Foundations Are Of Paramount Importance #2

The photograph in the previous post was inspiration for a short story (300-odd words long), written by the author of this blog. The blog was set up to tie the story and the photo together and to try and engage with potential readers of the story - and potential characters within the story. The story is called Solid Foundations Are Of Paramount Importance.

The story was printed out with a brief explanation of the project and a link to this blog. Fifteen copies of the story were then folded up and marked with the words "Read Me", and distributed around Ancoats, which is where the photograph was taken. The drops were made on Friday 14 October 2011, between 3pm and 3.30pm. It was a pleasant sunny day and neither rain nor wind was forecast for the weekend so this seemed as good a time as any to leave bits of paper lying about outside. The writer is also currently working, hanging out and occasionally staying in Ancoats, so it meant tabs could be kept on the stories in situ - as in this photograph...

On Friday 14 October, fifteen copies of the story were left in various places around and about the building site which features in the text. All drop-off points are within sight or sound of the construction site. All fifteen copies are now no longer there.

This is a record of where the stories were secreted, in the order in which they were left, and when the author noticed that they had been lifted...

Jersey Street/Bengal Street - building site hoardings, behind red Road Closed sign
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm

Jersey Street - fence to building site carpark, in line of sight to car driver
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm

Jersey Street - gate to building site carpark, by the latch
Friday 14 October, 5.15pm

Jersey Street - parking ticket machine, outside Murrays Mills
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm

Jersey Street - cream-coloured Mercedes Benz coupe, parked by the parking ticket machine, outside Murrays Mills, under windscreen wiper
Friday 14 October, 5.15pm

Hood Street - building site entrance, behind red Site Entrance sign on gate
Sunday 16 October, 5pm

Hood Street - building site entrance, inside, under new length of wood
Sunday 16 October, 1.30pm

Hood Street - white Transit van, parked outside and delivering to/working at St Peter's Church, under windscreen wiper
Friday 14 October, 4.30pm (author saw van seen leaving from office window)

Hood Street - next to one of the Ancoats Peeps, behind rusty downpipe
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm

Blossom Street - St Peter's Church, through the glass door
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm (a wedding was at that point in progress)

Blossom Street - carpark, red small van, through open driver's window
Friday 14 October, 5.15pm

Blossom Street - building site hoardings, behind blue and white Pedestrian Route sign (pictured)
This had been read, screwed up and thrown on the floor Friday 14 October, 5.15pm - it was reinstated by the author. This was the last story to go - and was taken by a friend of the author, Sunday 16 October, 5pm

Bengal Street - MBLA Architects, BS41 building, behind plaque at entrance
Friday 14 October, 5.15pm

Loom Street - old blue Saab, parked in Ask? building bay, under windscreen wiper
Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm

Loom Street - entrance to carpark under BS41, next to keypad
Friday 14 October, 5.15pm