| This old college, which is situated just across the bypass from Rawtenstall Station, and not far from the centre of the town, was being demolished during August, September, October and November 2008, and as of early December was all but flattened, with just the crushing of the rubble and clearing up work still taking place on the site.
Work was initially carried out by a company called 'Morgan Dismantling and Demolition', but all activity ceased for a while when the owner of the site, Hurstwood Developments, went into receivership with massive debts. In late November though work had restarted and the demolition work was then carried out by 'PGC Demolition', a Heywood based company famed for being the dismantlers of the 'Riverdance' ferry, which was washed ashore off the coast of Cleveleys (see the maritime gallery for a picture of this!). A rare bit of extra excitement occurred on the 22nd of November, when one of the excavators had a bit of a mishap, and went into a hole, in what I've heard was a collapsed cellar. This resulted in a large mobile crane having to be brought on site, and with a combination of that and some infilling by one of the other excavators, the machine was soon righted again, and only seemed to have suffered some minor damage to its bodywork. Work proceeded speedily during December, with rubble crushing and clean up taking place on the site, and by good luck I was up that way on the afternoon of Saturday 20th of December, when work was completed, and I managed to get a few shots of the excavators being removed on low loaders. The entrance was blocked with earth, and the gates sealed, and the last workmen left the site around 2.35pm. It remains to be seen how long this site will stay empty now before someone buys it and starts to develop it. With the current economic situation, and the collapse of the former developers who owned the site, things don't look too bright in the immediate future anyway. |
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