The building collapse in Sheffield

[Bill Wright]

Look at the pictures and tell me what you think.

Bill

[Bob H]

Go on then, which pictures?

[Andy Burns]

One of the news sites seems to think someone was knocking down internal supporting walls ...

[Nightjar]

30 students made homeless? It sounds like serious overloading of the floor if they all lived in the part that collapsed.

Colin Bignell

[Andy Burns]

Would you like to stay in one of the neighbouring flats?

[ARW]

If the building was safe then yes:-)

BTW the Peter Sutcliffe was arrested less than a mile away from there.

[ARW]

If the building was safe then yes:-)

BTW the Peter Sutcliffe was arrested less than a mile away from there.

[Nightjar]

Were they in any immediate danger, I would expect to see cracks in the brickwork to the sides of the collapse and glass broken in some of the windows. To me, it seems that the beam that must have been holding up the front wall above the restaurant has failed, which makes the suggestion that somebody was removing internal structural walls quite probable.

Colin Bignell

[Graham.]

realrac123: People could have died in them flats...I work as an Uni lecturer.

[fred]

In article , Bill Wright writes

Almost certainly a result of snow loading on excessively large satellite dishes mounted on the front wall.

If the streetlight hadn't helped hold the roof up then things could have been a lot worse.

[Nightjar]

A lecturer in English I presume?

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

Google Streetview shows one ordinary sized dish at the very edge of the collapsed area.

That is an optical illusion. The street light is at the edge of the pavement, several metres away from the roof, and in line with part of the building that did not collapse.

Colin Bignell

[Owain]

I don't think it was a carport this time.

Owain

[Graham.]

Sheffield. That's Bill's patch.

[GB]

:)

[Andy Burns]

The building goes back further than you might think ...

[John Rumm]

To the turn of the last century perhaps ;-)

[Frank Erskine]

Somebody didn't use a digital lashing kit for their aerial. They probably used a "set alight" one instead.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Reading it now, it's like the cerebrally-challenged idly waggling their toes in the waters of linguistics.

[Bill Wright]

Go away and google 'building collapse Sheffield' and then you may return, enlightened by your own endeavours rather than requiring to be spoon fed.

Bill