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Harvey Williams-Fairley
The Bone Yard
It’s a Saturday. It’s sunny. The wind still and the air warm. We’re driving to The Bone Yard. An abandoned selection of boat moulds left behind, stationed upon a overgrown plot of land in Kererick industrial estate. Over the years, skaters who’ve occupied the Falmouth lands have discovered a series of spots which are in their own right legendary. The Bone Yard, which gets its name due to the desolate and eroded feel of the place, is where skaters daring enough go to ride the vert of the boat moulds. The guy driving the car is Tom Davis, a skater with the skills necessary to hold up in The Bone Yard.
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Model: Tom Davis Inside the Swagen
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Harvey Williams-Fairley
The Bone Yard
Rusted Structures of The Bone Yard, They stand tall and dot around the area in random clusters. 5
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Harvey Williams-Fairley
The Bone Yard
Falmouth & Cornwall as a whole is a place that is crawling with an underlying skateboard and surf culture, that to be honest dominates with many Cornish traditions such as fishing, pasties, clotted cream, cider & ales. It’s an aspect of Cornish life, which you cannot escape and is seen everyday. Falmouth in particular has a rather broad skateboarding culture; we have Faltown skate boards, many independent skate outlets which span the high-street and many locations which have been passed across the grape vine by whispers to those who are in the know.
The whole yard has a distinct presence of youth interference, the immature scrawling with spray paint, the reckless damage, empty beer cans. It screams of a teenage right to passage. To anybody adventurous, daring or curios this boat yard is a dream. It’s a vast open space that overlooks ASDA’s car park. It’s so unbelievably in sight it’s overlooked by many passers by, the perfect spot for anybody to build a den. To create a teenage hideaway that has such promising features. A place to meditate.
THE BONE YARD Kererick industrial estate, just off the A39 there is an abandoned industrial yard that contains many unused ship moulds. Over the years unruly skaters have broken into this shipping yard, most likely to source materials to build ramps. Instead what the founders discovered was possibly the most unexpected find they’d ever come into contact with. These ship moulds are so smooth, but yet grip so fantastically. They are a radical shape, which provided a ride and an experience unlike anything before. Using their initiative these skaters have combined their bodge D.I.Y. techniques to create these boat moulds into something beautiful, making use of the abandoned materials.
For my touch aspect I want to relish in this environment, I want to form a body of work that shows everything this boat yard could possibly mean to someone who would simply stumble upon it and make use of it, embracing the potential and the excitement of such an easily accessible place, in plain sight, but completely hiden.
SHRED
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FRONT SIDE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Tom Davis
WIPE OUT
Featuring: Will Baker Tom Davis
Imagery: Harvey Williams-Fairley
Text: Harvey Williams-Fairley
Graphic Design: Harvey Williams-Fairley
Touching From a Distance 2013