Look at the pictures and tell me what you think.
Bill
The building collapse in Sheffield
Mar 24, 2013
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Go on then, which pictures?
One of the news sites seems to think someone was knocking down internal supporting walls ...
30 students made homeless? It sounds like serious overloading of the floor if they all lived in the part that collapsed.
Colin Bignell
Would you like to stay in one of the neighbouring flats?
If the building was safe then yes:-)
BTW the Peter Sutcliffe was arrested less than a mile away from there.
If the building was safe then yes:-)
BTW the Peter Sutcliffe was arrested less than a mile away from there.
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
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realrac123: People could have died in them flats...I work as an Uni lecturer.
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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.
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A lecturer in English I presume?
Colin Bignell
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
I don't think it was a carport this time.
Owain
Sheffield. That's Bill's patch.
:)
The building goes back further than you might think ...
To the turn of the last century perhaps ;-)
Somebody didn't use a digital lashing kit for their aerial. They probably used a "set alight" one instead.
Reading it now, it's like the cerebrally-challenged idly waggling their toes in the waters of linguistics.
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
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