Blowing up Tower Blocks
Video footage of the demolition is available thanks to Paul Kingham and Trevor Clarke - choose between Mpeg (3Mb) and WMA (300k) formats.
A BBC News article about this is online here, and an article in The Times is available here (needs free membership).
 View fullsize Warnings were placed in the tube station and by St Patrick's Cemetery. |
 View fullsize A last glimpse of the towers. |
 View fullsize People climbed on vehicles to get a better view. |
 View fullsize The M11 link road and tube line fell silent, and sirens sounded. |
 View fullsize A bang, and the first tower began to crumble. |
 View fullsize As the first tower came down, the second one began to fall. |
 View fullsize The towers were down after just 9 seconds. |
 View fullsize A dust cloud rose up from the rubble. |
 View fullsize Later, the towers had become two mounds of concrete debris. |
 View fullsize Dust had fallen on the road like ash, or a sprinkling of snow. |
 View fullsize The lush green grass nearby was also coated in dust. |
 View fullsize Afterwards, the remains of each tower looked like a bombsite from a news report. |
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