Demolition starts to remove Kendray Bridge. Work has started to demolish a 30-year-old bridge in Barnsley in preparation for a £41 million revamp of the town centre. Kendray Street bridge is the first structure to be knocked down to allow for the redevelopment, which includes a new town square, library and a refurbished market.
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Video – Barnsley says farewell to bridge…
Video – Swiss roll silo…
Video captures implosion of woodchip silo and lift tower in Solothurn canton. We very rarely feature demolition works from Switzerland – The country is seemingly too clean and noise-averse to allow anything as crass as demolition to take place within its borders. But we now have an exception to that rule in the shape of…Read moreRead more
Video – Supermodel at work in pool…
Look very closely; all is not as it seems. A Liebherr 960 excavator equipped with a hydraulic hammer breaking out a swimming pool. Nothing out of the ordinary there…or is there? Remarkably, the film you’re about to watch features a scale model excavator and attachments. But the breaking and attchment-switching is very real indeed. Check…Read moreRead more
Video – Plans call for demolition of Gates Circle hospital…
Buffalo hospital could fall. The planned development of the Trico site on the edge of Buffalo’s medical campus, has the developer looking to demolish the oldest structure of the complex. Originally built as an ice house to service local breweries, the structure has deteriorated. Removal of the ice house clears the way for a courtyard,…Read moreRead more
Video – Festival of Britain demolition…
We revisit Nostalgia Corner with this look back at the demolition of the Festival of Britain site. The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give the British a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British…Read moreRead more
Video – Demolition, Yorkshire-karate style…
Vintage film captures demolition by hand…and feet. Health and safety folk, look away now – We’re about to ruin your day. We have just stumbled across this Movietone film of a demolition contract being carried out by a team of Yorkshire karate experts. Eschewing hard hats for hard heads, safety boots for bare feet and…Read moreRead more
Video – Bonaventure expressway demolition begins…
Work starts to remove Montreal overpass. The demolition of Montreal’s Bonaventure expressway has begun as crews started taking down part of the eastern-most section on Monday. The roadway will eventually be turned into an urban boulevard. The Bonaventure coming into Montreal will be lowered to ground level with a green area between the traffic heading…Read moreRead more
Video – Last call for Brazilian silos…
Implosion fells 19 silos simultaneously. It is a sight that will bring a tear to the eye of any devoted beer drinker – particularly those in South America – as 19 silos owned by brewing conglomerate InBev fall to a controlled blast. The impressive implosion was carried out by our Brazilian blasting buddy Fabio Bruno…Read moreRead more
Video – Excavator falls in bridge collapse…
Operator lucky as bridge collapses beneath him. An amateur video captures the moment a bridge collapsed, sending an excavator plummeting onto the road below. Thankfully, press reports suggest that the operator was unhurt and there were no injuries reported at the scene in Ashland County, Ohio.
Video – Another Berlin landmark falls…
RIAS transmitter tower falls to mini blast. The RIAS transmitter tower once served the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world. Weighing 55 tonnes and standing 160 metres tall, the tower was also one of the tallest structures in Berlin. But it is no more. A barely audible blast felled the structure this weekend,…Read moreRead more
