Work on the New School Commences! (#1552 - 1601)

1552. Machines at the ready early this morning. Taken on Hamilton Drive.The Orchard Learning Resource Centre in the background. (14/APR/2014)

1553. The workmen's cabins arrive on Hamilton Drive. Taken from the thicket. Weoley Park Road in the background. (14/APR/2014)

1554. The lorry with the cabins arriving (just visible). Weoley Park Road in the background. St Mary's Church is visible background centre - not for much longer! Taken from the 1st floor of the OLRC, Religious Studies Hall. (14/APR/2014)

1555. Another new and temporary view - across the OLRC car park and the meadow to George Cadbury Hall on the other side of Bristol Road. Taken from the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1556. View of the demolition site on the left and the meadow on the right, minus the trees and bushes that made up the hedge row and 'island'. Taken from the thicket, facing east. Weoley Park Road is background left, Bristol Road is background right with a view of George Cadbury Hall. (11/APR/2014) 

1557. What remains of the cedar tree on Hamilton Drive. Several trees have been sprayed with blue paint for removal. The meadow and Bristol Road are in the background. (11/APR/2014)

1558. Along the boundary to the new school, several trees were cut down. The wood has now been cleared away. What remains of the thicket is on the left. Hamilton Drive runs along in the background with a view of BMS (Baptist Mission Society) background right. (11/APR/2014)

1559. View of the meadow from the first floor of the OLRC - Humanities Hall. There is bare ground background left where trees and brambles on island d* have been cut down. Another view that will change soon. (11/APR/2014)

1560. View of the meadow from the ground. The bare patch in the middle is what used to be island d*. The view of Hamilton Drive and Weoley Park Road background left is newly visible. (11/APR/2014)

1561. Panoramic shot (not too much distortion) of the meadow, showing where island d* used to be and the new view. The teaching wing is just in shot on the left. (11/APR/2014)

1562. View from island b* across the meadow, through where island d* once was and through where there was once a hedgerow, to BMS on Hamilton Drive. (11/APR/2014)

1563. View from island b* across the meadow, through where island d* once was and through where there was once a hedgerow, to BMS on Hamilton Drive. (11/APR/2014)

1564. Blue post and markings left by the surveyors in the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1565. The same blue post and markings left by the surveyors in the meadow, with a view of the gate to Bristol Road and George Cadbury Hall in the background. (11/APR/2014)

1566. Common Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) growing in the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1567. There is a place in the meadow, along the Bristol Road boundary, close to the east corner, where there is a little compost heap. where grass cuttings are dumped and bluebells grow. (11/APR/2014)

1568. The east corner of the meadow. The wood stacked here is what remains of several lime trees that grew here. Lots of double and triple daffodils (Narcissus thalia) are in flower here. (11/APR/2014)

1569. The lime wood pile. (11/APR/2014)

1570. Double and triple-headed white daffodils (Narcissus thalia) scattered across the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1571. A triple-headed daffodil (Narcissus thalia) in the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1572. A double-headed daffodil (Narcissus thalia) in the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1573. A double-headed daffodil (Narcissus thalia) in the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1574. A triple-headed daffodil (Narcissus thalia) in the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1575. What remains of one of the lime trees in the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1576. Cross section of one of the trees cut down at the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1577. Violets have popped up among the cut down trees. (11/APR/2014)

1578. One of the lime trees that has been cut down surrounded by Daffodils (Narcissus thalia). View from the east corner of the meadow along the north-east / Weoley Park Road boundary. 

1579. Another view that will soon disappear - the Orchard Learning Resource Centre seen from the east corner of the meadow. (11/APR/2014)

1580. Taken from island d* looking across where the hedge used to be, to the demolition site and Hamilton Drive. BMS in the background. (11/APR/2014)

1581.Power mains have been uncovered from the bushes of island d*. (11/APR/2014)

1582. Another blue marker in the middle of what was island d* (11/APR/2014)

1583. Purple Vetch (Vicia dasycarpa) growing among apple blossom at the edge of the OLRC car park. (11/APR/2014) 

1584. Purple Vetch (Vicia dasycarpa) growing among apple blossom at the edge of the OLRC car park. (11/APR/2014) 

1585. Apple blossom flowers growing on the edge of the OLRC car park. (11/APR/2014) 

1586. Bluebells are starting to flower in the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1587. One of many dandelions in the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1588. Field Wood-Rush (Luzula campestris) among the grass in the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1589. One of literally hundreds of tiny maple seedlings in and around the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1590. Another one of literally hundreds of tiny maple seedlings in and around the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1591. A daisy in the thicket. (11/APR/2014)

1592. Pierris floribunda "Forest Flame" outside the front entrance of the OLRC. (11/APR/2014)

1593.  Pierris floribunda "Forest Flame" outside the front entrance of the OLRC. (11/APR/2014)

 1594. Pierris floribunda "Forest Flame" outside the front entrance of the OLRC. (11/APR/2014)

1595. The first tulip of the season! Outside the front entrance of the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1596. Flowers in the planter outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1597. Flowers in the planter outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1598. Flowers in the planter outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1599. Flowers in the planter outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1600. Flowers in the planter outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

1601. Cherry blossom outside the front entrance of the OLRC. (14/APR/2014)

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