Reduced to rubble...

Farewell to another chunk of Hull's heritage, as what didn't go in the controlled explosion at Spiller's Mill last year is finally nibbled away by heavy plant. Anything old and smacking of the filth of industry gets demolished around these parts. It's just plain wrong.

Walls come tumbling...

It does appear that what goes up does indeed have to come down, especially if it's an old mill. This building - the first half of which went the way of the controlled explosion at the beginning of September - does appear to have put up a bit of a determined fight to remain in the vertical, although, by now, they'll have moved in with the heavy plant to finish the job. The big silo at the rear goes next although not sure when.

Tags: demolition, Spillers Mill

Bye bye building #3 - the video...

Just in case you couldn't be there...

Bye bye building #2...

Farewell, then, to one part of Spillers Mill, a rather big thing on the Hull skyline and visible from the west stand of the KC Stadium. But not for much longer - the rest of it goes within the month. I watched from a small hill behind Cleveland Street. I think, from the ambulance that belted past me, the continuing road closures and some walkie-talkie action I overheard, that someone may well have been seriously hurt during this controlled demolition. No news, as yet, though from the local meedja.

Aw, nice building...

Going...

Going...

Going a bit more?

Still going?

Gone?

Gone.