Building a Bridge

A little over a month ago, on 101010, I showed you a few photos of the construction of a new bridge that is being built at Hammer Hill in Tungelsta. The bridge will span the railroad at the commuter station in Tungelsta, and a new road is also under construction on the other side of the railroad. If your memory is up to par you might remember my post from February 2009 called Half a House. This is the exact spot where that house once stood. Back in May of this year I met and photographed Daniel Larsson, a landscape architect who at the time was busy shooting photos of this area to use in a 3D rendition of the bridge.

Half a House

This was the scene at Stenliden a couple of days ago. The demolition work continued, and I knew I had to stop and capture this shot. Not very often that you see something like this. This house was build around 1920 and has a lot of history. Read my previous posts about Stenliden here.

Stenliden No Longer

As promised a few days ago, here are a collage of photos from Stenliden. A property that was built back in the 1920ths close to the Hammar Estate in Tungelsta. Over the years it has served as a school. And as a library. And in the 1950ths, the nurse Barbro Edhem lived and worked here. I'd never been inside the building until a couple of days ago when I noticed that the demolition team was ready to tear the place down. The last people that lived here was a local historian and a young family. The photo to the left shows the stairs up to the apartment on the second floor where the nurse lived sixty years ago. Top right is an abandoned piano on the inner room at the first floor. Middle right is from the nursery room on the second floor where the young family lived up until sometime last year. Bottom right is a view from the kitchen on the first floor. Some of the cabinets had been left on the walls. There was a few more items left here and there and I have a few more photos in my Stenliden set at flickr. The reason for the demolition is a new bridge that will be constructed here as the area will undergo some serious changes in the near future. A new railway track will be built between Västerhaninge and Tungelsta which means that a few old X-ings will be moved and a couple of new road will be built.

Demolition Time at Stenliden

Talk about leaving it to the last possible moment. This is Stenliden. Perhaps not a famous building in Tungelsta, but with a lot of history. Over the years it has housed a school. It has also served as a library. And back in the 1950ths the nurse lived here and worked here. For the last few years local historian Åke Rhudin rented the house from the council, but he moved out late last year. Today as I walked by, the demolishing team had arrived. I have never been inside, so I took my chance and walked in for a photo shoot. Inside I ran into an old friend of my parents, who was there for a final look. As I walked out after my photo shoot, the demolition started, and as I'm typing this there's probably not much left of Stenliden. I will show some more photos in a day or two.


The reason for the demolition is the construction of a new bridge. In the next few years a second rail track will be built between Västerhaninge and Tungelsta (a 3,2 km stretch), and three old railroad crossings will be closed. The new bridge will span the rail tracks, and one other property ( a horse farm at Lillhammar) will also be demolished as a new road will be built.