https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGaacV2-aRA
It looks quite easy to demolish it , but Stephensons tower is now history .
ragga ............
It looks quite easy to demolish it , but Stephensons tower is now history .
ragga ............
Someone has done a great job with the time lapse pictures.
I work in the building opposite where it used to stand and have been taking daily pictures ( over 450 ) of the
exact same thing. It was interesting to watch the demolision, it took 6 months start to finish and they used JCB
type vehicles to 'eat' their way down the building bit by bit. The spoil was removed in skips which were lowered
by crane as it was deemed too dangerous to drop anything other than wooden items down the lift shafts. Only
when they got as low as what was the second floor that spoil was lowered via the old lift shafts and the crane was
dismantled. A lot of the spoil is being re-utilised as hard core to provide what will be the new stepped entrance
on the corner of station street where the John Lewis's building will be.
Here is a walkthrough of what the finished project is going to look like - I'm sure it's been posted here before.
The new entrance to the station where Stephensons Tower once stood is at around 1 minute into the animation.
Ian.
No, I think that's probably when she went to live in the flat on the Handsworth Wood Road which was not a Council property.