Brinsley Headstocks demolished for "safety" reasons

AR.

AR.

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This Grauniad article popped up in my MSN feed today, I'm horrified to read about this act of gross vandalism by a public authority - have they not heard of Heras fencing?
www.theguardian.com

‘It makes me want to cry’: anger over Brinsley Headstocks demolition

Broxtowe council dismantles remains of village’s mining heritage amid safety concerns
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
I also notice ICLOK gets quoted in this (not sure if he's joined up here yet) though they spelt his name wrong...
 
😭 What a bunch of idiots ! These people now days need to wake up , we soon won’t have many things left to ruin …I suspect the person who said do it can’t even get of there chair let alone walk up to the site. Just got a massive back hander like always ….
 
Certainly not the best approach, when I worked as a Surveyor for Bedfordshire Schools team we restored a dovecote in the school grounds, the roof was judged unsafe, the roof timbers were carefully dismantled and laid out and numbered and recorded on a drawing, along with the tiles etc. there was careful consideration of what could be reused and what needed repair or replacment under the watchful eye of the county conservation officer. It wasn't even a building that had much historical or cultual significance or uniqueness.

The difference perhaps being that it was listed by default as being built before 1947 and within the curtilage of the main listed building? We got some sort of grant that covered it, was nearly 20 years ago though.
 
AR. said:
... have they not heard of Heras fencing?...
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Too readily stolen

It's not just here, lots of places don't seem to value heritage these days, even though their equivalent of listed, getting knocked down is still a strong possibility for this thing, which I went underneath back and forth quite a few times last Summer https://www.google.com/search?&q=manilla+viaduct&tbm=isch&source=lnms

when it's gone it's Gone!
Some bug hotel made from the wood or whatever they'll do with Brinsley is no replacement 😞
 
AR. said:
This Grauniad article popped up in my MSN feed today, I'm horrified to read about this act of gross vandalism by a public authority - have they not heard of Heras fencing?
www.theguardian.com

‘It makes me want to cry’: anger over Brinsley Headstocks demolition

Broxtowe council dismantles remains of village’s mining heritage amid safety concerns
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
I also notice ICLOK gets quoted in this (not sure if he's joined up here yet) though they spelt his name wrong...
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How you doing AR, hope you are well, it was me that boosted debacle into the limelight by getting the BBC involved etc, I basically got a call saying the things had been sawn up on the grounds of dangerous, the local council basically screwed up and showed the usual lack of any actual plan by employing men with chainsaws to conserve something... strangely akin to the Pinxton Gin saw up affair... caused a great deal of upset to us locals it really did, its being replaced with a full size new one but it wont be the same.
 
That was what got me mad when I read about this, if there were patches of rot in the wood then any competent chippy could have taken them out and scarfed in new timber while leaving the good original timber, like you'd be expected to do if you found rot/worm in the roof timbers of a listed building, while heras fencing and warning signs would have covered the Council's liability.
 
AR. said:
That was what got me mad when I read about this, if there were patches of rot in the wood then any competent chippy could have taken them out and scarfed in new timber while leaving the good original timber, like you'd be expected to do if you found rot/worm in the roof timbers of a listed building, while heras fencing and warning signs would have covered the Council's liability.
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Sadly for them I know that only about 30% of it got replaced when restored in 1991, I was there while it went up chatting to the company that erected it. When it was cut up I had a look at all the vertical main timbers, all where original with the various knocks and war wounds you'd expect. There was no rot except on the top member. The guys on the chainsaws lets us in the compound and I did full sets of pics. The whole thing was BS to get rid and deal with consequences after, the fact the idiots at the local council said they were saving some timbers to re-use having cut it into 3-4ft long pieces was just shown to be BS. The lads cutting it up confirmed theyd had no instructions to save. Furthermore I had to wonder round telling them what original metalwork bits shouldn't go in the scrap if they were going to rebuild it.... a joke from start to finish!
 
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