TylerTrainFan2001 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I went and visited the flyover today and noticed where the green crane was there is now a new red crane beside the pub. I wonder what they are doing? I do not have no photos as I was driving at the time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, TylerTrainFan2001 said: I went and visited the flyover today and noticed where the green crane was there is now a new red crane beside the pub. I wonder what they are doing? Moving the pub? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I’m not sure what it’s like these days, but based on my one visit in the dim and distant a good move would be to lift it up, take it away, and bring a better one to put in its place. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2020 Long time since I was in there, probably March 1990 at a guess, but I don't remember it being particularly exciting. Run of the mill town pub, average pub grub, nondescript but harmless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) A new crane arrived on site today. It was still being assembled this afternoon when the picture was taken. I understand it is being used to remove some of the piers which have now been fitted with lifting rings. I understand work is scheduled to take place on some of these tomorrow night / Sunday morning. Edited October 17, 2020 by 1E BoY Grammar 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerTrainFan2001 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Were there any lifts last night on the flyover? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2020 39 minutes ago, TylerTrainFan2001 said: Were there any lifts last night on the flyover? The crane at the end of Duncombe Street had been removed when I visited the site just after 1000. Some work appears to have been done on the piers overnight. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerTrainFan2001 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 That’s weird I thought they are lifting the piers that crane went quick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2020 Some shots from the Water Eaton Road work site taken this morning through the security fencing with a long telephoto lens. Looking east towards the town centre. The houses in the background are in Duncombe Street. The final shot is of the back of the Telephone Rentals building showing that on the main building now remains. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) All those access platforms look like a crowd of machines waiting to wreak havoc on us humans. Jamie Edited October 18, 2020 by jamie92208 2 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Like something out of the Tripods ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 (edited) 23 hours ago, jamie92208 said: All those access platforms look like a crowd of machines waiting to wreak havoc on us humans. Jamie Or H.G. Wells' Martians, but I think we humans are doing a cracking job of wreaking havoc on ourselves. One of the comics I read in the 1950s-1960s had a strip that ran for some time in which all the automated machines (notable for their standard electronic brains that looked remarkably like an upturned pudding basin with a VHF aerial poking out of it) went out of control and did what they were designed to but relentlessly. I can't track down which comic it was but it was around the time that the Beezer had the "Jellymen". My favourite was a group of railway building machines that were frenziedly marching across the countryside leaving new railway lines, complete with cuttings and embankments- not sure about viaducts- in their wake. Anti Beeching robots. anyone? Edited October 19, 2020 by Pacific231G 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 19, 2020 9 minutes ago, Pacific231G said: Or H.G. Wells' Martians, but I think we humans are doing a cracking job of wreaking havoc on ourselves. Yes I must admit that I thought of the War of the Worlds. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxUnpopuli Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 On 18/10/2020 at 11:27, 1E BoY said: I thought of this: (Image courtesy BBC Earth.) 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Robot MEWPs with Russian accents - now I'm really beginning to worry! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jcarta Posted October 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2020 On 18/10/2020 at 11:27, 1E BoY said: Some shots from the Water Eaton Road work site taken this morning through the security fencing with a long telephoto lens. Looking east towards the town centre. The houses in the background are in Duncombe Street. The final shot is of the back of the Telephone Rentals building showing that on the main building now remains. At a quick glace they look like Johnny 5 from the film Short Circuit....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted October 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2020 When I walked past earlier today they were excavating a large hole at the base of the pier nearest Buckingham Road. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) Might the plan be to undermine, then topple, it? Or, if it is to remain, to add supplementary foundations. Edited October 22, 2020 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Is that where they load the dynamite? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Fireworks night soon! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 That will have to be held indoors so as you dont mingle with anyone!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerTrainFan2001 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 I wonder if there was any removals last night? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quagmire Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) On 22/10/2020 at 19:31, Nearholmer said: Might the plan be to undermine, then topple, it? Or, if it is to remain, to add supplementary foundations. The nearest 2 are retained and getting reinforced (expanded) lower down (to level with the top of the taper on the ends). The top still needs to come of the closest one (e.g. so it looks like the one behind) Edited October 26, 2020 by Quagmire typo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 7 hours ago, Quagmire said: The nearest 2 are retained and getting reinforced (expanded) lower down (to level with the top of the taper on the ends). The top still needs to come of the closest one (e.g. so it looks like the one behind) I was told that the top of this one next to Buckingham Road is indeed being retained and the excavations are for strengthening the foundations. This was taken this evening around 1800 through a gap in the security fencing. Some of the others have had the top sections removed and now look Stonehenge like! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quagmire Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 11 hours ago, 1E BoY said: I was told that the top of this one next to Buckingham Road is indeed being retained and the excavations are for strengthening the foundations. This was taken this evening around 1800 through a gap in the security fencing. Some of the others have had the top sections removed and now look Stonehenge like! I have it as down for additional reinforcement and the top being removed. The new deck design is incompatible with the top being retained. Each of the "capped" piers will be getting a new top with a suitable bearings (the bearings being one of the main drivers for all this work). The new deck designs here are very different the old one. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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