North Quays

Aquos76 · 28-04-2016 11:49AM

An update from earlier this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqEC_KF7ST4

bullpost · 28-04-2016 11:58AM

Great video - Really shows the scale of the work involved.

looksee · 28-04-2016 12:29PM

How do they get all the rubbish off site, and where does it go?

Aquos76 · 28-04-2016 01:25PM

I'm open to correction here but the contract is only to take the buildings down, obviously the steel and metal will be sold on and I'm sure someone will take away the timber, but the rubble is to be left there, that's my understanding anyway.

Aquos76 · 28-04-2016 05:49PM

Some good progress made this after noon, I'll duck down shortly and get some pics.

alta stare · 28-04-2016 06:14PM

Aquos76 wrote: »

Some good progress made this after noon, I'll duck down shortly and get some pics.

Was in top getting petrol this evening so I was having a gander when filling up its gonna be great to be able to see across to the town. I'd say the town will look well when it's dark and the outline of the buildings are showing with their lights.

Aquos76 · 28-04-2016 06:42PM

Parachutes · 28-04-2016 07:47PM

Isn't the biggest building not being knocked for historical reasons?

Aquos76 · 28-04-2016 08:04PM

Parachutes wrote: »

Isn't the biggest building not being knocked for historical reasons?

Yes, there is a preservation order on the building in red

looksee · 28-04-2016 08:38PM

Would be a terrible shame if the guy with the machine lost track of which bit of mass concrete he was supposed to be knocking down...

shockwave · 29-04-2016 12:05PM

A preservation order on a big square lump of concrete, what kind of historical value does that have ffs

Max Powers · 29-04-2016 12:50PM

shockwave wrote: »

A preservation order on a big square lump of concrete, what kind of historical value does that have ffs

Think it was the first structural steel/concrete building in Ireland.I know of similar things in place in other countries.I think if fixed up, could look great, they don't build with loads of windows in that style anymore, real industrial 70ish years ago stuff.has very good potential.

bullpost · 29-04-2016 01:33PM

Loft living Waterford-style here we come

Max Powers wrote: »

Think it was the first structural steel/concrete building in Ireland.I know of similar things in place in other countries.I think if fixed up, could look great, they don't build with loads of windows in that style anymore, real industrial 70ish years ago stuff.has very good potential.

O Riain · 29-04-2016 03:39PM

JohnC. wrote: »

This is from Friday

Streetview image for comparison. You can see some sheds (where the demolition crane is now) are gone and some work started on the end of the big building.

Have you got another picture like this to see more progress?

Aquos76 · 29-04-2016 03:55PM

Won't be much different as the demolition work which is going on at the minute is to the rear of the furthest building on the right. Only when that building comes down will we see the difference.

Parachutes · 29-04-2016 09:26PM

Will anything be done with the building with the preservation order (I.E painted) or is it just going to be left there to continue being an eyesore?

Seems ridiculous to knock the rest while leaving the most sizeable building still standing!

Aquos76 · 30-04-2016 11:46PM

Some excellent pics captured by Jamie Malone

https://www.facebook.com/ThruMyEyesByJamie/posts/1144122138971431

Aquos76 · 01-05-2016 03:36PM

Here's the drone footage from Jamie Malone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6dA0Bxz6o

Harry Palmr · 01-05-2016 07:22PM

Fantastic I want a drone!

More of these when they are put up...

Jambo · 01-05-2016 07:31PM

Parachutes wrote: »

Will anything be done with the building with the preservation order (I.E painted) or is it just going to be left there to continue being an eyesore?

Seems ridiculous to knock the rest while leaving the most sizeable building still standing!

Its actually not the biggest building - below is some pictures of it when it was the largest building.

Jambo wrote: »

My Guess it would be larger building in the picture below that is staying ( this is behind the current front building which used to have the large poster on it)

Out of interest here is the same building getting built

All pictures are from the Poole Collection at the National Library

Add a bit of positive thinking and planning and it could be converted to something like this Opera house in Marseille / Le Silo Marseille

Or one any of the many examples on Google

Aquos76 · 01-05-2016 07:48PM

im actually confused now, I hadn't realised that the building that I had marked from the Ferrybank side as the one that's staying and the one that has the poster on it on the quayside are actually two separate buildings till I saw that drone footage. If the poster one is going, then it will be some undertaking to take that one out of it without touching the one behind it, and also due to the fact that it's so close to the river.

Jambo · 01-05-2016 08:12PM

Aquos76 wrote: »

im actually confused now, I hadn't realised that the building that I had marked from the Ferrybank side as the one that's staying and the one that has the poster on it on the quayside are actually two separate buildings till I saw that drone footage. If the poster one is going, then it will be some undertaking to take that one out of it without touching the one behind it, and also due to the fact that it's so close to the river.

The "Poster" building is also built over the river on piles so that will also add to the challenge I guess.

O Riain · 09-05-2016 02:58PM

Anymore photos on the progress?

Aquos76 · 09-05-2016 03:37PM

O Riain wrote: »

Anymore photos on the progress?

This is from five mins ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10nTZvkSa0

O Riain · 09-05-2016 04:00PM

Aquos76 wrote: »

O Riain wrote: »

Anymore photos on the progress?

This is from five mins ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10nTZvkSa0

Deadly stuff. Thanks boy! Progress is slow enough on that building in comparison to the others that have already been knocked.

Aquos76 · 09-05-2016 04:04PM

They seem to be knocking this one in stages, one side at a time, I dunno can it be seen in this video or not but that whole wall in the middle is shaking everytime the grabber grabs the top of it. I reckon that most of this building will be gone by end of tomorrow.

wmpdd3 · 09-05-2016 08:47PM

Yeah, this building seems to be taking the longest. Its addictive to watch. The amount of wood stacked up already is amazing.

I know it was posted here before (like 7 years ago!) but there are some photos here of the inside on the mills.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/r-h-hall-flour-mills-waterford-ireland-september-2014.t92219

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/r-h-hall-waterford-ireland-30-05-09.t40664

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/spillers-mill-waterford-15-05-09.t41442

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/spillers-waterford-flour-mills-ireland-30-5-09.t40581

I really love these photos, I was never brave enough to explore them.

Anyone remember the Heiniken sponsored band that played down there about 10 years ago?

O Riain · 09-05-2016 10:59PM

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Yeah, this building seems to be taking the longest. Its addictive to watch. The amount of wood stacked up already is amazing.

I know it was posted here before (like 7 years ago!) but there are some photos here of the inside on the mills.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/r-h-hall-flour-mills-waterford-ireland-september-2014.t92219

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/r-h-hall-waterford-ireland-30-05-09.t40664

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/spillers-mill-waterford-15-05-09.t41442

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/spillers-waterford-flour-mills-ireland-30-5-09.t40581

I really love these photos, I was never brave enough to explore them.

Anyone remember the Heiniken sponsored band that played down there about 10 years ago?

Was it not Coors? They had a load of shipping containers right? Was it not the coronas that played, or Mundy or someone like that

Aquos76 · 10-05-2016 02:36PM

Today's update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHATTX-6so

Cabaal · 10-05-2016 05:33PM

The silo's are certainly no loss,

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