RRB Photobooks' corrected reprint of Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell's first publication, long out of print. Originally issued by Dalesman in the early nineties, the book documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds. 'I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I got to it. Times change and I know there was no point in keeping Quarry Hill Flats. But what it stood for might have been worth remembering.' Quarry Hill Flats was a large housing estate, built on continental lines and peculiar to Leeds—the largest and most modern of their kind in Europe, housing around three thousand people, constructed in the mid-thirties as part of a 'great social experiment' to accommodate an entire urban community. The daring vision soon began to crumble, literally; by the late fifties the flats were infamous, and in the seventies the decision was made to demolish the 'stone jungle'. Mitchell arrived in Leeds in time to record the passing of the great estate. This is not merely a record of demolition but a tribute to the power of photography, to those who engineered and built the flats, to the people who lived and died in them and to the city of Leeds itself. Using archive material—much of it private and unpublished—the book details the ideas behind the flats, their construction and their eventual demise.