The crowd await the demolition on the Racecourse side of the Irwell.

 

A closer view of the flats all hollowed out and awaiting the demolition. You can see that the shops have already gone.

 

The demolition begins. Milton House is falling in the middle of the picture and on the right Shakespeare House is going.

 

Milton is now just a cloud of dust.

 

And now just dust

 

As the dust clears you can see that Burns (on the left) is just rubble as is Milton (in the middle) and Shakespeare (on the right). In the middle the lift shaft from Jonson House remains upright.