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Demolition of Rawtenstall's Valley Centre to start this week
Work is beginning this week on taking down the Valley Centre in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall, much to the relief of local people. The decrepit shopping centre is being surrounded by hoardings this week by its demolition contractor...
Read full article February 6, 2012Demolition contractors begin work on the Dunston Rocket
Demolition contractors have started the long process of taking down the Gateshead edifice known as the Dunston Rocket. The infamously recognisable block of flats has been empty since 2010, and is being demolished to make way for a new h...
Read full article February 1, 2012Wooden bar salvaged from demolition targeted pub
The impressive wooden bar of a Morpeth pub that is marked for demolition, has been salvaged and moved to a new home just across the road. The Old Red Bull pub closed in November and is to be demolished later this year to make way for a ...
Read full article January 31, 2012Doomed cliff-top Norfolk homes to be demolished
Demolition contractors are preparing to start work on taking down cliff-top homes in the Norfolk village of Happisburgh, which have been doomed by encroaching coastal erosion. North Norfolk District Council (NNDC) completed its final pu...
Read full article January 30, 2012Careful demolition of Epsom water tower begins
The brick-by-brick demolition of Epsom’s Horton Water Tower is finally underway, much to the relief of residents living in its shadow. People living on the Livingstone housing development, which has been built around the foot of t...
Read full article January 25, 2012Contractors move quickly to demolish fire-damaged chapel
Demolition contractors in Wales have moved quickly to take down the remains of a 19th-century chapel in Swansea, after an enormous fire left it in a very dangerous state on the weekend. The Libanus Chapel in Cwmbwrla was set alight in a...
Read full article January 24, 2012Controlled explosion demolishes Leicester chimney
A 115-foot tall industrial chimney in Leicester was demolished on the weekend in a controlled explosion. The chimney, on the site of the former British United Shoe Machinery (BUSM) works in Belgrave, was demolished at 11am on Saturday in...
Read full article January 23, 2012Fire-ravaged Leeds pub to be demolished
The ruins of the Middleton Arms pub in Leeds are to be demolished in the spring, after a fire tore through the upper levels of the building last month. Demolition contractors are to begin work on the site in the spring, and a new Aldi s...
Read full article January 18, 2012Contractors preparing Rotherham block for demolition
Demolition contractors are readying a landmark Rotherham building to be demolished next month, by stripping out all of the interior fittings. Workers are emptying the inside of the seven-storey Crinoline House, in Effingham Street, whic...
Read full article January 17, 2012Daughter demolishes factory tower where her dad died
King's Lynn's long-standing Campbell's factory tower was demolished over the weekend, with the button pressed on the explosives by the daughter of a man who lost his life in the factory. Sarah Griffiths, 41, said that the...
Read full article January 16, 2012