Demolition

The demolition work started at the very beginning of August 2005, and was carried out by a specialist company.  The work on the Tower itself did not start until the 10th August.  The first building to go was the Humanities Building, quickly followed by the Technology Block.  Both of these disappeared in little more than a day each.

On the 10th August the "Nibbler" arrived from London.  This massive machine started at the top of the tower and worked its way down, eating the walls from the top down.  It started around 9am and by mid-morning it was eating into the old Room 15, the Commercial Room.  In only five days most of the Tower was gone.  All of the Trinity buildings had gone in a matter of days.  By the end of the month only three walls remained from the old gym, as the gas supply had not been disconnected.  Soon they were gone too.  All that remained was a pile of rubble, which was then broken up and used on the site as part of the foundations of the new buildings.

The final demise of the old buildings are recorded below, but in addition, the Chronicle and Echo ran a story on the demolition by Lei Chan, the Education Reporter, which is in our Scrapbook Section. [read]