Blimey anyone from Whaley Bridge?

Concrete is not eternal , it powders , when we put acoustic vent in new tv studios which is pretty heavy we weren’t allowed to hang from concrete slabs without back plates for that reason . Concrete fish ponds leak without waterproofing . I’d say 100 odd years is pretty good really . Like most stuff profit takes over then it becomes jo public’s place to pick up the massive bills for of major rebuilds ,just like all our infrastructure we are too short sited or at least the people who take the money turn a blind eye . I just hope this gets sorted and no one gets hurt or killed .

 

I wonder if the original engineers claimed it would last two hundred years though?
Probably said it would be good for 150 years and we’ve just been blasé
I wonder how much Victorian engineering is presumed to be ok but in reality it’s going to give way immenently.
I watched someone up the Blackpool Tower the other day on tv and wondered how the metal structure was fairing up to being on the coast for the last 125 years

 

actually the Firth of Forth road bridge built in 1964 was in danger of collapsing due to the single cable design its open again but only to buses and motorcyles - mind you the next door railway bridge is still solid since 189o

 

Built it, got their money and fecked off, like they do today, no doubt.

 

What’s 200 years in the scheme of things? I bet if Brunel built it...

 

But it's had one or two coats of paint over the last 130 years!

 

Didn't we sell these things off so the new companies would be able to invest more in maintenance

 

I didn’t done no bowt you

 

Blackpool Tower was designed to support fat Northern lasses full of chips and Bacardi, so should last for ages.

 

Do the residents that have refused to leave know that the Chinnok pilot's name is Barnes Wallis?

 

I was thinking...if anyone wanted to let a bomb off and cause havoc, we’ve got enough dodgy Victorian dams ...

 

Ssshhh...don’t tell them

 

Wouldn't surprise me if there was cracks in that concrete letting in water for a while leaving voids underneath .
Then came the mega surge gets under concrete due to the pressure then all runs away sand castle style .

 

I think they know already. Quite scary, though.