Seadog
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That's a real surprise in an old and quarry
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JohnH
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Site of old William Way's builders merchants. Used to use them all the time. You could park on the pavement there, pop in, grab some gear and be gone pronto. Great loss.
I feel sorry for the guy opposite with the shop and off licence. I know they were stuggling in the past. This will probably be doomsday for them.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.6&lat=51.25145&lon=-0.06822&layers=6&right=osm
I feel sorry for the guy opposite with the shop and off licence. I know they were stuggling in the past. This will probably be doomsday for them.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.6&lat=51.25145&lon=-0.06822&layers=6&right=osm
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Take a bucket of dry sand and add water. Volume decreases considerably. Strange that this sinkhole seems to be in a line along the high street. I would imagine it has been cased by a leaking water main over time until the crust at the top collapses.
When I was seven years old, the mother of one of my primary school classmates disappeared down a sinkhole. Luckily for him, he was running on ahead. They never recovered her body, despite several guys being injured in the attempt.
I remember some Army personnel pouring several barrels of bright yellow dye down the hole, to try and find where the underground stream emerged. They never did. They tipped thousands of tons of shingle down the hole to fill it.
Another one appeared about 100 yards away some time later. Right outside someones back door. We used to play in the alley behind those houses !
When I was seven years old, the mother of one of my primary school classmates disappeared down a sinkhole. Luckily for him, he was running on ahead. They never recovered her body, despite several guys being injured in the attempt.
I remember some Army personnel pouring several barrels of bright yellow dye down the hole, to try and find where the underground stream emerged. They never did. They tipped thousands of tons of shingle down the hole to fill it.
Another one appeared about 100 yards away some time later. Right outside someones back door. We used to play in the alley behind those houses !
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There's been a water leak on a mini rounderbout near me for the last two years or so, the monkeys have been out three or four times digging up the road but never fixed it, I think they have said its runoff from the woods but it's always wet even when the rest of the runoff has dried up, I wonder if we'll get a massive sinkhole one day?
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its easy enough for them to test the water . they had to do it on our spot . tons of water coming on to my spot from the railway
i just put a perforated land drain in fed in to the main drain outside off my property they said it was tap water but didnt know from where . i had a new water main put in and it stopped must have gone from stop tap to the old railway signal box then back on to my spot 
Ah you saw that too.
I thought it had to be a main but its not clear if it's a cracked/burst main or the damage to it was done as the road collapsed.
It's mixed blessings but a much better outcome if it is mains.
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it could be worse there homes could be worth nothing
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cant sell to get your money back as there worth nothing
other than just sat there and no where to go as you cant afford to go anywhere
no matter what you want to say it still falls back onto who allowed the propertys to be built on that sort of land wether it was a tip sight landfill or even a sand quarry
someone passed the area for building and there lies the fault people should be recompensated by the original passer of the land
whilst this is the council it squarely falls within the councils fault for allowing building on that land
many might say its down to the people who landfill the site
no offense no one checks what going into the landfill or even checks if its being stagered filled and compacted down per stagger fill
whilst the council should not pass the land for building as no evidence can be provided that stagger refill has been done correctly
Families in 'state of panic' as new-build Odsal homes currently worth nothing
RESIDENTS on a new-build housing estate in Bradford have been told that their homes are currently worth nothing - as a result of planning and…
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cant sell to get your money back as there worth nothing
other than just sat there and no where to go as you cant afford to go anywhere
no matter what you want to say it still falls back onto who allowed the propertys to be built on that sort of land wether it was a tip sight landfill or even a sand quarry
someone passed the area for building and there lies the fault people should be recompensated by the original passer of the land
whilst this is the council it squarely falls within the councils fault for allowing building on that land
many might say its down to the people who landfill the site
no offense no one checks what going into the landfill or even checks if its being stagered filled and compacted down per stagger fill
whilst the council should not pass the land for building as no evidence can be provided that stagger refill has been done correctly
brightspark
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the local tip near us was massive its now been built on 25 years after it was filled by marshals concrete product factory
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now since i know this site and know how they filled it in
wilson rd quarry site in wyke bradford
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i would advise against building houses upon it
now the area hasnt sank even with this amount of rain but i can assure you theres plenty of air holes/pockets
the land was filled in from the flats of manchester rd i recognised what they was tipping over the edge and seen how they was filling it in with the bull dozers
big lumps of concrete building tipped over the edge and rolled down the steep embankments as it was deep at that point soil was then dumped near the edge and just bulldozed over the edge and allowed to roll and fall at its own rate to fill in before next lot came
so i know it has plenty of pockets that arnt filled in properly
wilson rd quarry site in wyke bradford
Plan to build 91 homes on former quarry site
OVER 90 homes could be built on a large site in Wyke if major new housing plans are approved.
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91 homes plan refused over "loss of biodiversity"
A 91-house development on a former quarry site in Wyke has been thrown out by planners, who said the homes would lead to a loss in the area’s…
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i would advise against building houses upon it
now the area hasnt sank even with this amount of rain but i can assure you theres plenty of air holes/pockets
the land was filled in from the flats of manchester rd i recognised what they was tipping over the edge and seen how they was filling it in with the bull dozers
big lumps of concrete building tipped over the edge and rolled down the steep embankments as it was deep at that point soil was then dumped near the edge and just bulldozed over the edge and allowed to roll and fall at its own rate to fill in before next lot came
so i know it has plenty of pockets that arnt filled in properly
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JohnH
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SesWater say they had a burst water main.
This is how the site used to look;
As you can see, the builders dropped the ground level down for the new builds thus weakening the ground under the road, causing the watermain to burst. This is the A25 and gets a lot of heavy traffic rumbling its way along.
Windy Miller
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Was this the sinkhole in Frindsbury? I lived just round the corner!
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Yes. back alley between Bill Street and Randolph cottages. Was 1967. Woman was Jean Thompson and her son was called Mark. The other sinkhole was behind the houses in Bingham Road.
Is your name Andrew by any chance ?
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Yeah that’s me! Do we know each other?
