A street just outside of Merseyside has been left empty.
Metal fences and loose bricks shake as lorries pass along the motorway just yards away. Cracked windows fill the terraced houses of Elm Street in Ellesmere Port.
Thousands of people see the two rows of decaying terraces every day as they drive along the M53. The other end of the deserted street is home to toys, furniture, anonymous rubbish and other debris that has been left strewn across the old timber yard.
