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New tower block being built

Just a few feet from the river Avon down below my house.  Not a beautiful blip I know, but maybe interesting in that it shows the tower is pre-fabricated and the lorry has just brought some sections of the next floor.  There will be 19 floors in all. The crane is the biggest I’ve ever seen, and lifts each new part into place. At least it is going to be housing - though I don’t know where the facilities that people need are. There’s no doctor, shop, parking, school. All they will have nearby is the dog’s home and the very noisy  council recycling yard - oh and co-incidentally, the Royal Photographic Society new HQ and exhibition space, so if they are blippers they may like that.
The extra shows the evening view from my upstairs front window. These streets are at least 100 feet above the river - I’ve shown before the Thunderbolt steps - 155 stone steps which take you down to the main road where the building is happening. It’s a bit fuzzy as it was taken through the (Victorian) window pane. But it shows how extraordinarily big the crane is. Lots of change everywhere.  The housing is desperately needed and some is supposed to be ‘affordable’

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