2014 / Over 120 years old and spread out across sixteen acres, the Secretariat served as the headquarters for the authoritarian British-Burma Government during colonial times. Whilst also being the very place where independence hero General Aung San was assassinated in 1947 and where an independent parliament met from 1948 until 1962. Inside these Victorian red brick walls is where so many pivotal decisions were made and history defining events took place. It is a building with an unnerving presence. The Glasgow imported steel foundations of the main buildings strain under the weight of rotting teak. Caretakers who live inside the buildings, speak of seeing white female ghosts wandering the corridors and stairwells at night. Overgrown verdant gardens swarm with green vine snakes that hang from tree branches, whilst soldiers barracks, stables and outhouses crumble and sink into the marshland below.
