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chaozxtreme Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - Haha, nice! Used to stay right next to the highflats, Waverely Road - what a shithole.

MNOEL22 Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - do i take it then that you would of liked the highflat's to fall into waverely road !!!! p.s you may be interested in millarston high flat's demolition blowdown is on 3rd february this year

chaozxtreme Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - LOL would be good if it did fall on top of Waverely Road mate. Thanks for letting me know about Millarston, I'll be down taking pics.

chaozxtreme Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - What times the demolition at?

MNOEL22 Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - don't know all i know is that all local resident's that have to be evacuated have to be out by 10am this was the same at foxbar from what i can remember and blowdown was at 12.15 there it's just the case of being there for the back of 10am and having a long wait i suppose !!! if i hear any thing before then i shall send you a message via youtube regard's and happy new year

chaozxtreme Says:

Jan 2, 2008 - Yeah, I remember getting woke up very early in Foxbar, then fell asleep in my uncles so missed the highflats coming down lol. Suppose I'll need to wait about for a while for Millarston coming down. Cheers for the info :)

GhostReconGuy Says:

Jan 28, 2008 - Woah! that must have been cool to see in at the time 0.0

gm4dhj Says:

Feb 1, 2008 - Tee! hee! nobody knows about the dead pigeon removed from a roof just after the explosion as we were looking for any damage ! ......

MNOEL22 Says:

Feb 3, 2008 - oh yes i do i've got it on video.. they put the ladders up on to a gutter !!!!!!!!!!! to get it

gm4dhj Says:

Feb 3, 2008 - don't remember anybody with a camera there...never mind! ......poor pigeon.....

Rbx2008x Says:

Mar 25, 2008 - ahaa thats right next to my school:"!

nathanandbud Says:

Feb 11, 2009 - it was i had to be evacuated from my house then

martinedverlaque Says:

Jun 30, 2009 - it was awsome to see i was there see the one in the middle tht used to be my home 3c i still remember the floor from this day

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Added: Dec 30, 2007 By: MNOEL22

Duration: 0:41

Channel: People

marmion, heriot and montrose courts,these three 15 storey tower block's had originaly been tendered as a long reach demolition project. however following safedem's examination of the site ,the programme,and the costs involved explosive experts at safedem were called in to explore the possibility of demolishing the structures by explosive. Each of the three building's had a restriction on one elevation .nearby housing just 10m away, live roads and retaining walls just 5m away and live services and high voltage cables that looped around the blocks just 3m away from the structures in places. The greatest concern was a live sub-station just 2m from the west elevation of the centre building....in the word's of scottish power's feild manager "if you hit that you cut off half the power to the half of paisley" a detailed risk assesment and cost comparison was carried out and with safedems assurance the block's were to be demolished by explosives. There was a massive evacuation on the day with over 600 residents evacusted from there homes which had included the evacuation of the only remaining tower block oliphant court. Precisely on schedule on sunday 12th december 2004,the tower block's were demolished with more than 3000 strategically placed detonators controlling the rate and speed of collapse exactly as planned into the designated drop areas,the post blowdown inspection immediately focused on the live sub-station, the delay's had done there job with no kick back what so ever and leaving a clear path between the sub-station and the centre structure. More video's of this can be found on you tube from different positions such as at the pond and from the car park in the braes

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