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It's pretty harsh returning back to the town that I grew up in carrying lots of great memories from those times only to see certain reference points from back then become degraded with the passage of the years.

To return to various locations in and around the town that were scenes for some of the best memories of my life only to find they've now become inaccessible, unusable and, in some cases, even erased from existence is downright saddening. The people I met there, the experiences we shared and the sessions that went down that were never caught on camera but remain fresh in my mind almost 2 decades later made for some of the most intense and unbelievably enriching experiences of my life.

The following are some of the landmarks anchored to those memories that have now become lost to the past...

I was twelve years old when I got my first ‘proper’ skateboard, a pacer pharaoh from the local skateboard shop, Blythes. It was the spring of 1989 and I had fallen in love with a sport that would come to closely define the next 10 years of my life and continue to exert an impact on me for long afterwards...