Monday was an unmemorable routine domestic day, quiet and uneventful. Today, I did the week's big grocery shopping and cooked, while Clare was out at her study group, then went into town in the afternoon, to take photos of the St David's House demolition site. All the remaining scaffolding has been dismantled now and if there's anything left of the ground floor shops, at the west end, it's now masked by the blue hoarding around the site. Only the access ramp is still standing.
The largest and most powerful of the demolition machines has gone, and the three machines which remain are either loading rubble into lorries, or being used skilfully to sort and gather together metal components from windows, ceilings and stair rails for ready for transport to the recycling depot. In the meanwhile, a levelled and cleared area at the east end of the site is receiving lorry loads of topsoil for use in landscaping the open space, while in the middle section, big drainage pipes are being laid.
The building was stripped of internal furnishings in the first two months of the year, then the heavy machinery moved in and started gnawing the building apart at the beginning of March. In just four months the levelling of the site and initial preparations for landscaping the area will be complete. It's all happened without serious disruption to the procession of buses around the periphery of the site, and afforded some interesting if not spectacular moments for people waiting for buses to Penarth and Barry on the opposite side of Wood Street.
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