Scatmania » demolition http://www.scatmania.org Scatman Dan's stuff Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:20:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta2-14729 Demolition Of Y Tabernacle http://www.scatmania.org/2008/07/11/demolition-of-y-tabernacle/ http://www.scatmania.org/2008/07/11/demolition-of-y-tabernacle/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:40:27 +0000 Scatman Dan http://blog.scatmania.org/?p=1364 Following the fire at Y Tabernacle, Mill Street, Aberystwyth at the weekend, the decision was made that it was structurally unsound and had to be demolished. It’s sad to see such a beautiful (pics) old building torn down, but one can’t help but marvel at the speed and efficiency with which they did it. This morning, as I walked to work, there was no sign of any of the heavy plant machinery that later appeared. Yet this evening, as I look out of the windows of my office, the building’s suspiciously absent – from this distance, it’s just a space in the skyline.

I’ve taken a few videos of the demolition on my mobile and uploaded them to YouTube. If you can’t see them below, you can watch them here.

I notice that the fire’s being treated as suspicious, and I hear that arrests have been made. I’ve also heard my fair share of conspiracy stories already about it – the building is apparently a recent aqcuisition of Merlin Homes, whose boss (rumour has it) was conveniently out of the country when this and (allegedly) another Merlin Homes building burnt down in a very short space of time… I suppose they’ll be building a block of flats on the site, now.

But hey; people will gossip.

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