“…An industrial ruin 'speaks to the trauma, uncertainty, and tenacity of lived experiences with painful post-industrial transformations' (Mah, 2017, p. 205), evoking, signifying and mediating senses of traumatic events, memories and endurances (Degnen, 2016;Mah, 2012;Strangleman, 2013). Much research has been done on ruins of industrial workplaces, where former workers continue to cultivate attachments in what 'can be compared to a grieving process' (Meier, 2013, p. 475;Emery, 2019a). However, a focus on workplaces dictates a narrowed emphasis on labour issues, the loss of industrial jobs and economic decline.…”