The old place
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:55 pmWent to Christie park this afternnon.
Anyone of a nervous or emotional disposition should not go near - the North Stand roof is a pile of bent and buckled Meccano on the ground and the back wall is leaning crazily forward, with its back cladding bent and burst - the terrace steps piled up to one side - and all that after only 6 hours work by a machine with what looks like a pair of enormous toenail clippers attached, eating the girders greedily. They say at the end of today most of the stand will be flat.
The Main Stand has no decking. The insides of JB's Bar and the changing rooms peer oddly out through the girders where the seats used to be. The Press Box is perched dangerously, and inaccessibly, on a ledge up in the air. They have to take the asbestos cladding off piece by piece, carefully, to avoid causing it to crack and spread its dust around, but once that has been done the Stand will come down quite quickly.
The South Stand (what used to be the Umbro Stand) is naked after the asbestos cladding has been removed - the demolition people tell me it will take "About an hour" to floor what is left of it.
After that the job is to cut the steel and other stuff into standard size pieces to send it on to the the scrap companies, and then to clear the site fully, before Barrs start building the bacon counter for Sainsburys.
The job is timetabled as being allowed 7 weeks, but the boss said that he expected it to take 4 weeks - tops !
Mike W.
Anyone of a nervous or emotional disposition should not go near - the North Stand roof is a pile of bent and buckled Meccano on the ground and the back wall is leaning crazily forward, with its back cladding bent and burst - the terrace steps piled up to one side - and all that after only 6 hours work by a machine with what looks like a pair of enormous toenail clippers attached, eating the girders greedily. They say at the end of today most of the stand will be flat.
The Main Stand has no decking. The insides of JB's Bar and the changing rooms peer oddly out through the girders where the seats used to be. The Press Box is perched dangerously, and inaccessibly, on a ledge up in the air. They have to take the asbestos cladding off piece by piece, carefully, to avoid causing it to crack and spread its dust around, but once that has been done the Stand will come down quite quickly.
The South Stand (what used to be the Umbro Stand) is naked after the asbestos cladding has been removed - the demolition people tell me it will take "About an hour" to floor what is left of it.
After that the job is to cut the steel and other stuff into standard size pieces to send it on to the the scrap companies, and then to clear the site fully, before Barrs start building the bacon counter for Sainsburys.
The job is timetabled as being allowed 7 weeks, but the boss said that he expected it to take 4 weeks - tops !
Mike W.
