19th February 2010 – 4am
A fire starts in offices connected to the rear of the Green Door Studios. It spreads into the studio building and the upper floor is mostly burnt out. The remaining areas are affected by smoke, water, and falling debris from the roof that needs to be hacked open to dowse the flames.
The main road through Kendal is closed off and the Highgate becomes like a pedestrian zone instead of its usual one-way traffic.
The studios were set up in 1995 by a group of artists to provide affordable studio space. Today it looks like everybody’s work, equipment and materials or water damage, or because we will never get into the studios again because the building’s structure has become so unstable. It’s a real mess.
