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Park Street South, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AE

Award winning timber frame school built for Diocese of Lichfield. The external cladding is untreated Douglas Fir and roof tiles in Red Western Cedar. The underfloor heating is powered by a biomass woodchip boiler. Designed for 450 pupils at a cost of £6.2M it is at the heart of the regeneration of the area. The adjacent Phoenix Rise flats await demolition.

A new building for the C of E Primary School in Moor Street, Blakenhall. The old school Imagein Bromley Street as been demolished.

This telephoto assisted image of the new housing was taken from Park Street South, looking across the derelict site formerly occupied by the Phoenix Rise tower block. A wider angled view: Image]

The view up Park Street South from in front of the new St Luke's School.

In August 2002 the Blakenhall Garden multi-storey flats were gradually being demolished. This is the clear-up beginning, the day after one block was flattened.

The spire of St Luke's Church at Blakenhall is seen here framed by the demolition equipment and what remains of the Phoenix Rise tower block.

The Phoenix tower block is being demolished after less than fifty years, while the Victorian Gothic brick church still looks magnificent after 150 years. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/522083

The south end of the tower, fully wrapped to prevent stray material falling outside the building perimeter, was removed very slowly, bit by bit, using a large skip hung from a tower crane to lower debris to the ground for subsequent removal. With utilities rather too close, neither explosive demolition nor the risk of falling debris were options. Image In this image, seen here with telephoto assistance, the north end is being taken down rather more quickly by heavier machinery, the debris and dust falling directly to the ground past unprotected walls. A conversation with one of the demolition gang revealed that this north end will probably be cleared before Christmas, the centre section being left until early January 2011. See also: Image

Detail of the north end of the block, dust flying, debris falling. The south end of the tower, fully wrapped to prevent stray material falling outside the building perimeter, was removed very slowly, bit by bit, using a large skip hung from a tower crane to lower debris to the ground for subsequent removal. With utilities rather too close, neither explosive demolition nor the risk of falling debris were options. Image In this image, seen here with telephoto assistance, the north end is being taken down rather more quickly by heavier machinery, the concrete, masonry and dust falling directly to the ground past unprotected walls. A conversation with one of the demolition gang revealed that this north end will probably be cleared before Christmas, the centre section being left until early January 2011. See also: Image

This image is the scene viewed from the derelict land left from an earlier demolished block. There were six tower blocks originally, Phoenix Rise being the last to be dispensed with, leaving only memories of ill conceived 1960s housing policy. The south end of the tower, fully wrapped to prevent stray material falling outside the building perimeter, was removed very slowly, bit by bit, using a large skip hung from a tower crane to lower debris to the ground for subsequent removal. With utilities rather too close, neither explosive demolition nor the risk of falling debris were options. Image In this image, seen here with telephoto assistance, the north end is being taken down rather more quickly by heavier machinery, the debris and dust falling directly to the ground past unprotected walls. A conversation with one of the demolition gang revealed that this north end will probably be cleared before Christmas, the centre section being left until early January 2011. See also this 2008 image from the other side: Image