News: Ron Hull complete Welbeck demolition project

Experts at Ron Hull Demolition in Rotherham have taken down the iconic headstocks at the Welbeck Colliery in North Nottinghamshire.

Production at the century old pit, one of the last two working collieries in Nottinghamshire, ended in May and the specialist team have now completed a six month project to clear the site.

The headstocks were taken down three seconds apart, falling to the right and left of the colliery power house, a listed building that remained live throughout the operation.

David Wall, contracts director at Ron Hull Demolition said: "It is actually the third explosive demolition that we have carried out on the site since we moved on last November but the headstocks coming down was clearly a particularly iconic moment – carried out in full view of the whole village.

"The major issue the team had to deal with was the presence of the power house, a listed building that lay between the headstocks. I'm pleased to say that the operation went beautifully, with the towers going just where they were intended, leaving the power house completely untouched."

Concrete and brickwork produced by the demolition of offices, buildings and workshops has been processed on the site and has been used to fill the mine shafts, which at Welbeck were 760 metres deep.

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