Watch Greyfriars be demolished with the aid of 2,200 explosive charges

If you visited the site yesterday, then you'd have been able to watch the Greyfriars bus station implosion live through a camera feed. But don't worry if you couldn't make it as the event was recorded for posterity. Included here are a couple of videos showing the station being raised to the ground.

The building has been referred to as the "mouth of hell" and has stood in Northampton for the last 40 years. DSM Demolition ended up using 2,200 explosive charges to demolish the building. It looks to have gone smoothly.

Old Northampton bus station to be demolished March 15th

C&D customer DSM has set the date for the Northampton Greyfriars demolition as March 15th.

Northampton will see an exclusion zone setup around the Greyfriars building on the Sunday, with local residents evacuated beforehand as a precautionary measure. Then a controlled explosion will be used to bring the structure down.

Although inconvenient for residents, the removal of the building opens the way for new development. The site is expected to be made ready for such redevelopment later this year, with Northampton Borough Council investigating exactly what is the best use of the land going forward.

Source: Northampton Chronicle and image from Whohe!

Long term C&D customer Connell Brothers have been busy demolishing in Rochdale as part of a £100 million town centre regeneration project.

The aim is to create a new mixed use retail and leisure area, but first three structures must be taken down by Connell Brothers. The first is city centre bus station, then they'll move on to the Black Box municipal office building, and then finish with Telegraph House on Bailie Street. In total, that's an expected 34 weeks of work.

Site audits for this project are undertaken by our very own Craig Wilkinson.

Source: d&ri