It's nice to see some old buildings like that left as they are with a kind of sleepy look about them. I am in Shanghai at the moment and I was last here fifteen years ago. The city has exploded both horizontally and vertically but that didn't faze me, when I worked in Shenzhen it was the same. There are some of the old concession buildings left but I then to see a friend whom I knew who had just bought a new flat then. His home telephone wasn't working and I knew him before mobile phones so I didn't know that. I went round to his apartment and it wasn't there. Sixteen years old and it had already been demolished to make room for a multi thirty floor apartment complex.
When I was last here I was taken to a large storage shed. It was full of the cars that had been left behind when the Europeans left in 1949. It was an absolute gold mine of vintage and veteran cars. Covered in dust and with flat tyres but oozing atmosphere.
They've all gone too.