Explosive Demolition of Hydra Clarkson Building at Neepsend, Sheffield

Note - I thought I'd rushed the editing here a bit in order to put it online quickly. Please check out my re-edit here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIpAG7Zp84Y

Some scenes at the demolition event of what has been a landmark building beside the river Don at Neepsend in Sheffield for many years. (Incidentally my first job was at Samuel Osborn's steel foundry - which used to be situated on the town side of this building. The disappearance of this old friend will be of nostalgic significance for yours truly - so I'm glad I got to record these final moments of its historic existence!)

Footnote - anyone interested can can get an idea what the other side of the building looked like and where it was (in relation to Sheffield town centre) in a supplementary video here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZPtwJ9mgek

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[nigelandbozena]

That was a nice looking building, surely it could have been turned into apartments

[liggybird]

@nigelandbozena Yes, I too was rather surprised there wasn't any talk of saving this not altogether unattractive building before it was scheduled for demolition. The river Don flows quite near to it and, if not apartments, I would have thought the building could have been made into the main feature of, say, a theme park or heritage museum (with some riverside cafés and bars of course!).

[sianhotchick]

My grandads in this O_o

[sheffboy63]

well they nmade a right bollocks of that, they almost did as good a job on abbey stainless building next to it....total cock up

[ronaldgaines1]

Well Done, very clear pictures despite the rain. Ron.

[commanderoates]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!