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agricola
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11 years ago

#21

If I get time tomorrow I will upload some of my images of the demolition.

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

simonrl
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11 years ago

#22

"agricola" wrote:
If I get time tomorrow I will upload some of my images of the demolition.

Thanks, that would be appreciated.

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

somersetminer
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11 years ago

#23

Right on.
I'll be glad to see em gone at last, all that ruined mill was depressing really

agricola
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11 years ago

#24

Some uploaded images ...

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ENJOY ... Cos now its gone its gone !

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

somersetminer
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11 years ago

#25

Nice one. still think thats the lazy approach to demo, some bang would have been a better show!
Any idea how long those two bins actually stood there approximately?

agricola
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11 years ago

#26

Yeah, we could have blown them up, not sure of the state of
Local houses would have been ! Most of us left on site would have liked to,have see them go in true Fred D fashion but there you go. However it is the safest method of demolition, but it does take a while if you dont have really big expensive kit which has a long reach.

I think they went up in approx 1970ish when the new mill was constructed - I expect there will be some one on here with an exact date 😮

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

derrick man
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11 years ago

#27

What work is actually in progress on site?

Alasdair Neill
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11 years ago

#28

I think there was a paper published by the Cornish Institute of Engineers about their construction, will have a look and see if I can find it.

Trewillan
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11 years ago

#29

"derrick man" wrote:
What work is actually in progress on site?

Demolition, apparently.

Bill L
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11 years ago

#30

Sorry to see them go - another landmark vanished

somersetminer
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11 years ago

#31

"Bill L" wrote:
Sorry to see them go - another landmark vanished

the headgears still there Bill! the mill was hanging.
did you see the Atkins 'prospectus' for the new mill, there will be replacements for these eventually (after a fashion)...

Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

#32

"derrick man" wrote:
What work is actually in progress on site?

They are building a link road which allows a developer to build a big estate.

Some money may have changed hands in the process.

Alasdair Neill
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11 years ago

#33

Evans, D.F., 1972. Reinforced Concrete Silos and Storage Bins. Transactions of the Cornish Institue
of Engineers New Series Vo. XXVII p. 52-59.

Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

#34

Any developments at crofty?

agricola
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11 years ago

#35

Carillion continue to move large amounts of material from one part of the site to the other. DRS (thats Demolition Really Slowly) continue to clear the remains of the mill. Nothing much else to report.

Oh yes, almost forgot some more idiots have tried to break in again ... Unlike others they were clever enough not to leave their autographs underground, but not clever enough to get underground.

Otherwise nothing else to report.

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

#36

Any ideas who it was and how they were getting in?

somersetminer
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11 years ago

#37

"agricola" wrote:
DRS (thats Demolition Really Slowly)

like that one!
when I passed the other day looked like the whole front of Crofty was being dug up, walls were gone etc. drainage work and prep for the new road Im guessing

RichSolway
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11 years ago

#38

Soz to be a pain.....

Could you upload these images to the archive folder for crofty?...... (I may be missing them but I could not see them in there and its a worthwhile recording in the folder than just the forum.)

Thanks

The newbie Rich.