HYDRAULIC WRECKING CLAWS...

...are making short work of  this ghastly lugubrious office block. They've dispensed with the old-fashioned balls - these claws are truly wicked!

They remind me of a holiday in Hastings when I was 10 years old - in the "Amusement Arcade" on the pier - they had these weird slot machines where you shoved in your penny & you guided a small crane with a three-clawed grab over the object you wanted to win...

I spent two shillings & five pence (nearly five week's pocket money) & finally I managed to grab a cigarette - a Player's Navy Cut Medium (extra) - I smoked it on the beach - it was perfectly disgusting & I've been an enthusiastic smoker ever since!!

Anyway these wrecking claws really do the job. Am not holding my breath hoping for an architectural chef d'oeuvre.