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belmont /cardigan st

JudiM said:
I'm glad they have found a way to retain the original façade.
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I used to live in Gopsal street. It has gone now but pleased that Cardigan Street is still there. so many happy memories. Good news too about the Belmont works I have a friend at the University so I knew the building was going to be restored.
 
Hello. I'm a newbie but work close to the development and thought I'd post a construction update picture for anyone who might be interested.

The whole building has been saved and restored. the roof has been rebuilt and the windows are almost complete. The water tower has been rebuilt and renovated and the missing masonry has been commissioned and restored. The new building at the back is progressing well too.

If anyone is interested in some more pictures, let me know and I'll see what I can do.belmont_to_steamhouse_compressed.jpg
 
hi ginga and welcome we are always interested in any photos especially those of old historical buildings which have been saved..(sad to say not enough are) so yes please keep us upated with this one...

cheers

lyn
 
ginga said:
Hello. I'm a newbie but work close to the development and thought I'd post a construction update picture for anyone who might be interested.

The whole building has been saved and restored. the roof has been rebuilt and the windows are almost complete. The water tower has been rebuilt and renovated and the missing masonry has been commissioned and restored. The new building at the back is progressing well too.

If anyone is interested in some more pictures, let me know and I'll see what I can do.View attachment 160562
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hi ginga and welcome. I am so pleased with the work and more so to see the tower rebuilt. Will you be doing any hard hat tours for us people who work in or are interested in historic building preservation?

Please do post more pictures, lets give the construction industry the recognition it deserves
 
Morturn said:
hi ginga and welcome. I am so pleased with the work and more so to see the tower rebuilt. Will you be doing any hard hat tours for us people who work in or are interested in historic building preservation?

Please do post more pictures, lets give the construction industry the recognition it deserves
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Hello.

The site is currently still under the construction company's control and I don't have the relevant health and safety certification to go on site yet but I could ask colleagues to take some pictures for posting when they next do a site survey.

As soon as building handover has started, I'll be getting my hard hat tour and will at least post pictures from this.

Sadly I've only recently returned to the office so a lot of development has already been missed. There is the possibility that I can post the time lapse we have been taking of the project but I'll have to seek permission for that before posting.

Since there is an attachment limit here, if anyone would like the full resolution pictures, I'm happy to pass them on as I take them - copyright free.
 
Wonderful. So good to see this progressing. We’ve been keeping our eyes on this here on BHF for some time. Look forward to seeing any photos (and the time lapse if you get the authority). Thank you for updating us ginga. Viv.
 
I've managed to get hold of all the time lapse that one of my work colleagues took. This was going to cover the whole deconstruction and reconstruction from the outside but unfortunately COVID hit and we were all sent home, but work continued. As a result the quality is low so that we could maximise the amount of footage captured. It is all raw at the moment and likely mostly boring but he did kindly edit the water tower deconstruction, which I've popped on Youtube.

I'll review the rest and post back when it's all been edited together (assuming there are interesting events of course)


For those wanting a more permanent record, here's the video to download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11df43QHvIhwPXjJRJeX4cl0a0zKvZKma/view?usp=sharing
 
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Two excellent films of the old works. The first film shows how delicate and precise the work had to be in order to carry out the deconstruction of the tower. And wonderful that it’s complemented by Morturn’s earlier footage of the dreadful and dangerous state of the building before work began. Thank you. Viv.
 
ginga said:
Hello. I'm a newbie but work close to the development and thought I'd post a construction update picture for anyone who might be interested.

The whole building has been saved and restored. the roof has been rebuilt and the windows are almost complete. The water tower has been rebuilt and renovated and the missing masonry has been commissioned and restored. The new building at the back is progressing well too.

If anyone is interested in some more pictures, let me know and I'll see what I can do.View attachment 160562
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Hi ginga, Welcome to the forum. Thank you so much for this wonderful photo of the Belmont Works. This area brings back so many memories for me.. The front of the building is looking so good. Haven't been down this way for many months now, so will look forward to a visit. Kind regards, Sue
 
Hello again. Just a few more little updates.

A video from the School of Computing at BCU describing what will be going on at the works (less about architecture and construction, more building use):

A 3D render fly-around of the proposed building exterior and interior (shaping up to be pretty accurate to the finished product):

The latest picture from my perch in the office attached:

The roof and cladding of the new portion of the site have progressed. On the old works itself, the windows are now in, as are two of the glass entrance-ways to the lower left of the building. Still no building handover so no pictures of the interior yet.
 

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I got some close ups of the main entrance this morning. Sadly it's still a building site and hasn't been handed over so no interior shots yet. Nice little nod to the factory it was, on the gates! Hopefully the Google Photos album link works.

photos.app.goo.gl

Belmont Works/Steam House

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Hello all.

It has been a little while but the building is getting close to completion. I was finally able to get a tour of the building and take photos this time. It was tricky before this point as I wasn't permitted to photograph before building handover.

I took as many pictures of the original part as I could but it's actually not as big as I imagined it to be.

Anyway, here are some photographs for you; I hope you like them. I've shared a Google Photos album so that you get the full, high resolution images. Each image has a short annotation explaining roughly where you are or what the space is for.

photos.app.goo.gl

Belmont Works - Tour

24 new items · Album by Gary Wright
photos.app.goo.gl photos.app.goo.gl

Gary.
 
ginga said:
Hello all.

It has been a little while but the building is getting close to completion. I was finally able to get a tour of the building and take photos this time. It was tricky before this point as I wasn't permitted to photograph before building handover.

I took as many pictures of the original part as I could but it's actually not as big as I imagined it to be.

Anyway, here are some photographs for you; I hope you like them. I've shared a Google Photos album so that you get the full, high resolution images. Each image has a short annotation explaining roughly where you are or what the space is for.

photos.app.goo.gl

Belmont Works - Tour

24 new items · Album by Gary Wright
photos.app.goo.gl photos.app.goo.gl

Gary.
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HI Gary,

The photographs are amazing, thank you so much. Kind regards , Sue
 
ginga said:
Hello all.

It has been a little while but the building is getting close to completion. I was finally able to get a tour of the building and take photos this time. It was tricky before this point as I wasn't permitted to photograph before building handover.

I took as many pictures of the original part as I could but it's actually not as big as I imagined it to be.

Anyway, here are some photographs for you; I hope you like them. I've shared a Google Photos album so that you get the full, high resolution images. Each image has a short annotation explaining roughly where you are or what the space is for.

photos.app.goo.gl

Belmont Works - Tour

24 new items · Album by Gary Wright
photos.app.goo.gl photos.app.goo.gl

Gary.
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Those photographs are great - thank you Gary
 
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