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Updated 5 March 2024 | First published: 16 September 2021 ~ Death of the House of Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering Zalivino\u2019s House of Culture. The space once occupied by the House of Culture is now just a bed of hardcore and thistles. Here is what it was like before they made a ghost of it. <\/em>[First written in 2022; revised 2024]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We first noticed that there was more traffic than usual whilst we were sitting in the garden drinking tea. Although the road through the village goes nowhere, in other words the village is the end of the road, there is some light industry here, and so the odd truck or two passing by is understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not until we walked to one of the two village shops, the one that is furthest away from us, that the reason for more trucks became startingly apparent. They were knocking down the House of Culture!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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News had been leaked to us some time ago that the days of the House of Culture were numbered and that a demolition team was waiting in the wings. But it is one thing to know and another to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House of Culture may have struck me as a depressing eyesore ~ an ugly great lump of concrete that simply did not fit, made worse by the mud and gloom of winter ~ but it was what it was; and, suddenly, now, it wasn\u2019t.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where once had stood the concrete behemoth ~ aged, stained, neglected, pitifully dilapidated and inconsolably boarded-up ~ there was just a pile of rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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