| Cracking photo on twitter 22:23 - Nov 22 with 2550 views | Darran |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 22:30 - Nov 22 with 2516 views | Banosswan |
Site of Sainsbury's? |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 22:57 - Nov 22 with 2461 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 22:30 - Nov 22 by Banosswan |
Site of Sainsbury's? |
Yes.
First concrete building (in U.K.? Possibly Europe?)
Scandal that it was pulled down.
It could have made a lovely building. Obviously not as was... |  | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:10 - Nov 22 with 2436 views | Darran |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 22:57 - Nov 22 by londonlisa2001 |
Yes.
First concrete building (in U.K.? Possibly Europe?)
Scandal that it was pulled down.
It could have made a lovely building. Obviously not as was... |
Not being pedantic just saying,the first reinforced concrete building in Europe. | |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:10 - Nov 22 with 2436 views | jack_lord |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 22:57 - Nov 22 by londonlisa2001 |
Yes.
First concrete building (in U.K.? Possibly Europe?)
Scandal that it was pulled down.
It could have made a lovely building. Obviously not as was... |
The first reinforced concrete building in Europe. It was a strangely grand building. |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:16 - Nov 22 with 2420 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:10 - Nov 22 by Darran |
Not being pedantic just saying,the first reinforced concrete building in Europe. |
As you may imagine, my knowledge of the difference between concrete and reinforced concrete is limited.
I need wingstandwood again - he was most helpful on the subject of how to talk to steeplejacks whilst wearing a brooch. | | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:17 - Nov 22 with 2413 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:10 - Nov 22 by jack_lord |
The first reinforced concrete building in Europe. It was a strangely grand building. |
It was. Seeing that picture makes me feel quite nostalgic. | | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:31 - Nov 22 with 2380 views | jack_lord |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:17 - Nov 22 by londonlisa2001 |
It was. Seeing that picture makes me feel quite nostalgic. |
Whenever I had been away for a while in my younger days and came back via Fabian Way, it was that building that said I was back in Swansea. | |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:35 - Nov 22 with 2375 views | oh_tommy_tommy |
For all it’s faults twitter also has some cracking information world wide |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 07:47 - Nov 23 with 2232 views | dickythorpe |
My old man can remember playing Cowboys and Indians on the site of what is now Pontarddulais Road retail park.
Funny how one of the first buildings there was Texas DIY!!!! |  | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 07:58 - Nov 23 with 2224 views | Neath_Jack |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:10 - Nov 22 by Darran |
Not being pedantic just saying,the first reinforced concrete building in Europe. |
Not being pedantic just saying, the first reinforced concrete building in Europe was a house in France. |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 08:03 - Nov 23 with 2214 views | sherpajacob |
Any photos of the weaver building showing the "overhang"
As a child I was always worried it would fall down.
There were indeed protests when the building was demolished. |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 08:53 - Nov 23 with 2158 views | lifelong |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 08:03 - Nov 23 by sherpajacob |
Any photos of the weaver building showing the "overhang"
As a child I was always worried it would fall down.
There were indeed protests when the building was demolished. |
There’s some fine photos on the net.
https://goo.gl/images/Y1uhGm |  | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 09:00 - Nov 23 with 2146 views | Muteswan |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 07:58 - Nov 23 by Neath_Jack |
Not being pedantic just saying, the first reinforced concrete building in Europe was a house in France. |
Some sources say that it was the first multi level reinforced concrete building in Europe. I grew up in St. Thomas and remember well the area around Weavers, as I went to school in St. David’s in town. Lots of kids used to play in and around the dock there, which as you might imagine was filled with all sorts of rubbish and there was an oily scum covering the surface of the water. There was a “ raft “ floating there on which the braver kids used to float around the dock. Frightening now I think about it, but when we were kids, well.😳.
I had a relative who worked there and went inside a few times, the smell was horrendous and obviously the flour dust was filling the air. Couldn’t have been a very pleasant place to work.
Oh, and the RATS. ðŸ˜
https://ididitthisway.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/weavers-flour-mill/
Is this the overhang you were talking about,
https://www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix/image-information/poster/weav |  | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 09:08 - Nov 23 with 2128 views | Vetchfielder |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:16 - Nov 22 by londonlisa2001 |
As you may imagine, my knowledge of the difference between concrete and reinforced concrete is limited.
I need wingstandwood again - he was most helpful on the subject of how to talk to steeplejacks whilst wearing a brooch. |
May I ?
Reinforced concrete is concrete with steel bars embedded within it.
Concrete is good at withstanding compression (or crushing forces) whilst steel is good at withstanding tension (or pulling forces) , so combine the two and you get a structure that is the best of both worlds.
Nice to be able to talk with some knowledge or here cos I usually talk rubbish. |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 11:15 - Nov 23 with 2030 views | Neath_Jack |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 09:08 - Nov 23 by Vetchfielder |
May I ?
Reinforced concrete is concrete with steel bars embedded within it.
Concrete is good at withstanding compression (or crushing forces) whilst steel is good at withstanding tension (or pulling forces) , so combine the two and you get a structure that is the best of both worlds.
Nice to be able to talk with some knowledge or here cos I usually talk rubbish. |
May I?
It doesn't necessarily have to have steel bars in it.
There is also the option of having steel fibres in the concrete (SFRC), which is also classed as RC. | |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 11:36 - Nov 23 with 2011 views | Wingstandwood |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 23:16 - Nov 22 by londonlisa2001 |
As you may imagine, my knowledge of the difference between concrete and reinforced concrete is limited.
I need wingstandwood again - he was most helpful on the subject of how to talk to steeplejacks whilst wearing a brooch. |
May I?
Thank God, thank God in the heavens above for reinforced concrete floors! It makes us all sleep soundly at night knowing the terrifying twin compartment industrial Milnor washing machine has been secured by means of the most robust modern fixing solutions.
This super-beast!..... This leviathan!......This giganticsaurus!...... This behemoth of the industrial washing machine era? Can ONLY be tamed by means of modern anchor-resin/studded bar and reinforced concrete emplacement. Otherwise?... The 15-20 tonner and all notoriety it brings would?..... Take off like a hovercraft in its spin cycle i.e. the precise stage when the whole ground underneath shakes like there’s something from the Richter Scale going on!!!!!!! [Post edited 23 Nov 2017 12:05]
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 12:19 - Nov 23 with 1945 views | sherpajacob |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 09:00 - Nov 23 by Muteswan |
Some sources say that it was the first multi level reinforced concrete building in Europe. I grew up in St. Thomas and remember well the area around Weavers, as I went to school in St. David’s in town. Lots of kids used to play in and around the dock there, which as you might imagine was filled with all sorts of rubbish and there was an oily scum covering the surface of the water. There was a “ raft “ floating there on which the braver kids used to float around the dock. Frightening now I think about it, but when we were kids, well.😳.
I had a relative who worked there and went inside a few times, the smell was horrendous and obviously the flour dust was filling the air. Couldn’t have been a very pleasant place to work.
Oh, and the RATS. ðŸ˜
https://ididitthisway.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/weavers-flour-mill/
Is this the overhang you were talking about,
https://www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix/image-information/poster/weav |
Is this the overhang you were talking about,
https://www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix/image-information/poster/weav
It is indeed, as a small boy never understood how it didn't fall down. | |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 20:21 - Nov 23 with 1742 views | jack2jack |
Nice photo that,the old railway arches in the background,which ran parallel with Quay parade as is.Demolished in 1984 or thereabouts.The only remaining piece of the structure( one of the RC columns) is on the footpath down behind Sainsbury's.
When you look back there has been many changes of the years,it's almost unreconisable from what it was when we were kids. |  | | |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 20:23 - Nov 23 with 1736 views | Jackfath |
We had a thread about Weavers a while back.
Just saying. |  |
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| Cracking photo on twitter on 21:29 - Nov 23 with 1651 views | WarwickHunt |
| Cracking photo on twitter on 20:23 - Nov 23 by Jackfath |
We had a thread about Weavers a while back.
Just saying. |
I'm getting all nostalgic about that thread. |  | | |
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