Update - Demolition Day 18 (#147-150) Brooksbank is gone!

147. Where Brooksbank Centre stood. Mary Burnie House to the left and Frank Price Building in the background. Taken from the OLRC car park. (29/AUG/2013)

148. Where Brooksbank Centre stood. Mary Burnie House to the left and Frank Price Building in the background. Taken from the OLRC car park. (29/AUG/2013)

149.  Where Brooksbank Centre stood. Mary Burnie House to the left, Frank Price Building and Hamilton Building in the background. Taken from the OLRC car park. (29/AUG/2013)

150. Where Brooksbank Centre stood. Mary Burnie House on the right, Frank Price Building on the left. The trees that border the meadow in the background. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (29/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point b*

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Update - Demolition Day 12 (#144-146)

144. Part of Brooksbank Centre has been pulled down. Mary Burnie House on the right. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (23/AUG/2013)
Taken from vantage point b*

145. View from the rear of Mary Burnie House and the side of Brooksbank Centre. Part of Brooksbank Centre has been demolished. View of Hamilton Building through the gap. (28/AUG/2013)
Taken from the thicket*

146. A large, new mushroom has sprung up over the bank holiday. Found growing in the thicket. (28/AUG/2013)

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Update - Demolition Day 8 (#133-143)

133. The corner of Mary Burnie House with a view of Hamilton Drive, the cedar tree and BMS. The azalea bush in right foreground. (21/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point ee*

134. Hamilton Drive facing Weoley Park Road, the cedar tree and Hamilton Building. (21/AUG/2013)

Shows vantage point b and point #5*

135. The demolition site. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (21/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point b*

136. Filing cabinets in single file along the side of Hamilton Building, off to be reused. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (21/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point b*

137. Sorting the remaining contents of the buildings to be recycled. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (21/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point b*

138. The side of Hamilton Building - Hamilton Drive. (21/AUG/2013)

139. A big sycamore tree on Hamilton Drive, across the pavement from 'the thicket'. (21/AUG/2013)

At vantage point ee*

140. The sycamore tree, Azalea bush, the rear of Mary Burnie House and Hamilton Drive.(21/AUG/2013)

Shows vantage point ee*

141. The sycamore tree with a view of Hamilton Drive and Birmingham Christian College. (21/AUG/2013)

At vantage point ee*

142. Hamilton Drive - opposite Mary Burnie House - BMS to the right. The bushes are mostly blackberry. (21/AUG/2013)

Shows the point across the road from dd*

143. BMS, Hamilton Drive, opposite Brooksbank Centre and Hamilton Building. (21/AUG/2013)

Across the drive from point #5*

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Before and after

1981

2013

Note the same big sycamore tree on the left embankment. The thicket on the right has grown much taller.

1981 photo from Westhill College Prospectus 1980-1981 

2013 photo taken 21/AUG/2013

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1981

2013

 

2013

1981 photo from Westhill College Prospectus 1980-1981 
2013 photos taken 15th and 21/AUG/2013

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2013

1981 photo from Westhill College Prospectus 1980-1981 

2013 photo taken 21/AUG/2013

Update - Demolition Day 6 (#130-132)

130.  The power cables have been switched off today. On Hamilton Drive, beneath the cedar tree. This is the site manager Jerome taking photos of the work. (19/AUG/2013)

Shows vantage point b*

131. Hole exposing access to power and gas. On Hamilton Drive, beneath the cedar tree. (19/AUG/2013)

At point #5*

132. Stranded re-cycling bins are among the many things removed from the buildings. Mary Burnie House in the background here. Taken from Hamilton Drive. (19/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point b*

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Update 2 - Demolition Day 5 (#129)

129. The digger that was brought in. Ready for action on Monday morning. Mary Burnie House on the right. Brooksbank Centre behind the digger.(16/AUG/2013)
Taken from vantage point b*

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Scenes from the Selly Oak campus (#122-128)

122. The meadow facing Weoley Park Road - facing NE. (16/AUG/2013)
Taken from vantage point x*

123. The meadow. Bristol Road behind the trees on the right, Weoley Park Road behind the trees on the left. The east corner of the meadow to the left. (16/AUG/21013)

Taken from vantage point x*

124. The meadow facing Bristol Road. Looking SE. (16/AUG/2013)

Shows vantage point p*

New panoramic video of the meadow. Click YouTube link: HERE 

125. The BBC arrive with the 'fambulance' (fake ambulance) to film an episode of Doctors. The OLRC doubles as St Philomena's Hospital. When filming a scene inside the fambulance, the crew jump up and down on the back step of the vehicle to make it look as if it is moving! (15/AUG/2013)

Taken at point #20*

126. Sorry looking window. The rear of Mary Burnie House. Taken from the thicket. (16/AUG/2013)

127. Another sorry looking window. The side of Brooksbank Centre. Some of the bushes were cleared from here today. Taken from the thicket. (16/AUG/2013)

128. Sorry looking window #3. The side of Brooksbank Centre. Taken from the thicket. (16/AUG/2013)

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The Holey Tree (#119-121)

119. View through the holey tree facing the OLRC. The holey tree is in the thicket. (16/AUG/2013)

120. View through the holey tree looking up. (15/AUG/2013)

121. The holey tree with Hamilton Drive in the background. (16/AUG/2013)

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Update - Demolition Day 5 (#117-118)

117. Truck arrives with diggers on board. Taken from Weoley Park Road. (16/AUG/2013)
Taken at vantage point a*

118. More bushes being cleared at the back of Mary Burnie House in the OLRC car park. (16/AUG/2013)
Taken at point #9*

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Update 2 - Demolition Day 4 (#111-126)

111. One of the signs around campus. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (15/AUG/2013)

112. Fencing put out on the meadow. Facing Weoley Park Road. At the back is the north corner of the meadow. (15/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point n*

113. Blackberries starting to ripen in the meadow. Facing Bristol Road. (15/AUG/21013)

Taken from vantage point n*

114. Fencing put out on the meadow. Facing Weoley Park Road. At the back is the east corner of the meadow. (15/AUG/2013)

Taken from vantage point u*

115. Fencing put out on the meadow. Frank Price Building background left, Weoley Park Road background right, both forming the north corner of the meadow. (15/AUG/2013)

                                          Taken from point #11 on the map*

116. Fencing put out on the meadow. Frank Price Building background left, Weoley Park Road background right. (15/AUG/2013)

Taken from point #11 on the map*

117. Fencing put out in the north corner of the meadow. Frank Price Building background left, Weoley Park Road background right. (15/AUG/2013)
Taken from vantage point s*

118. Flowers that grow by the meadow gate. (15/AUG/2013)

Taken at point #12 on the map*

119.  Fencing put out on the meadow. Frank Price Building in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

Taken close to vantage point p*

120. Fencing put out in the north corner of the meadow. You can just make out the road to nowhere. Frank Price Building in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

121. Fencing put out on the meadow. OLRC in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

122. Fencing put out on the meadow. Shows the north corner with a white van parked outside Frank Price Building. Weoley Park Road in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

123. The "road to nowhere", fenced off, with Weoley Park Road in the background. The north corner of the meadow. (15/AUG/2013)

124. Fencing put out on the meadow. OLRC in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

125. Fencing put out on the meadow. Weoley Park Road in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

126. Fencing put out on the meadow. Weoley Park Road in the background. (15/AUG/2013)

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