In 2005 Carlisle was hit by unprescedented flooding, leading to St Aidan’s and Newman secondary schools being partialy damaged.
After recoering for the floods there was a huge debate over the future of the schools.
Newman school survived as is, until the floods of 2015, after which the school had to abandon site and move to the former Pennine Way junior school site which was scheduled for demolition having just previously been vacated by their move to new facilities across the way on the former RRCA site ( confused , yes its a shifting sand) . Latterly the school rebuilt on the outskirts of town as the St John Henry Newman School..
St Aidan’s County High School though gatherd itself togehter and repaird the damage, but the forces in the council wanted a long term vision to be realisd and the fate of the 100 year old school was written. The beautiful old building and it’s 60’s, 70’s 80’s and 90’s extensioned would be consigned to rubble and a new Academy would take it’s place. From a temporary site we took footage fo the build and started making a video to capture the transiton..
I have the original camera footage and will be compilng a better , higher resolution video of the build.
It will include never published footage of the demolition, although the timeline starts after some work comenced due to issues gettin permission from the contractor.
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