Derelict school site, Liverpool, October 31st 2008 What does a landscape need to make it wild? These unvisited places fascinate me and link these urban landscapes to my recurrent autumnal interest in the Blair Witch Project and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon; woods as places of ancient danger, almost prehistoric menace. I suppose the Founding Fathers took this European sense of wildwood with them to the New World.
I seem to have walked such derelict landscapes many times; the airfield at Burscough for the Southport book, for example, or long Railway Club walks in the late 1970s. These twentieth-century ruins seem a background to urban walking; and the idea of wildness and wildwood is absorbed/inherited by derelict built environments. There is a lot in this.
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