29 January 2013 Last updated at 14:17 ET

Plans to demolish a 19th Century vicarage in Stoke-on-Trent have been recommended for approval.

Ceramics firm Steelite International wants to knock down the Heaths building in Newcastle Street, Burslem, as part of a 12m expansion of its factory.

Planners at the city council said the benefits of the plan outweighed any impact upon Stoke's heritage assets.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and more than 330 people, who have backed a petition, are among the objectors.

The demolition of the 1858 building is among three applications for the site which have been recommended for approval, subject to conditions.

The plans will be considered by the Labour-run council's development management committee on 5 February.

HLF invested 300,000 to help refurbish the old vicarage in 2008.

The fund's Reyahn King said it had invested more than 8m in regeneration schemes in Burslem and would have "serious concerns about the authority's commitment to local history" if the demolition was approved.

Meanwhile, objectors who have backed an online petition say the Heaths building has "significant historical importance" and should be preserved.

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A state appeals court ruled today in favor of the St. Louis Preservation Board in its denial of a demolition permit for the historic Cupples 7 building in downtown St. Louis.

The ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis does nothing, however, to rehab the building, which has a gaping hole its roof and an interior in ruins.

Still, the decision stalls the owner's effort to tear down the structure. It is the only unrenovated building in the Cupples complex west of Busch Stadium.

In its 11-page ruling, the appeals court affirmed the decisions by the Preservation Board and Betsy Bradley, the city's cultural resources officer, to deny a demolition permit.

Cupples 7's owner, Ballpark Lofts III, had sought the permit, contending that the building is too deteriorated to save.

Bradley and the Preservation Board determined that while Cupples 7 has significant damage, it remains reasonably sound.

The owner had planned to renovate the century-old warehouse as lofts. But the housing market fell apart and Ballpark Lofts made no Cupples 7 repairs as the building deteriorated.

Condemned by the city in 2008, Cupples 7 remains in shaky condition. Its outlook grew more tenuous after no one responded by the citys deadline of Jan. 10 to submit a renovation proposal. City officials hope to save the building and note that historic preservation tax credits could be available to help fund a rehab.

But such a project could cost tens of millions of dollars and would have to include payment of back property taxes owed by Ballparks Lofts III.

The appellate ruling upheld a decision last June by St. Louis Circuit Judge Steve Ohmer

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Cupples 7 escapes demolition

NUKETOWN 2025 DEMOLITION HIGHLIGHTS

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20130124 2nd Alarm Demolition
04:59 original dispatch time WSF with Collapse 915 - 918 Chestnut Street Kulpmont, Northumberland County, Pa Upon arrival the Fire department found the double home fully involved bringing a 2nd alarm. As the second alarm was arriving the main fire building collapsed causing further extension into neighboring structures. Heat marks could also be scene on neighboring structure and across the street in the form of melted aluminum siding. According to neighbors, all of the occupants affected by the fire were accounted for. I am sure I will of missed a few apparatus so please feel free to let me know who needs to be added

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Storage Tank Demolition
This video is a full demolition of a large petroleum storage tank. The video shows heavy machinery picker tearing the metal storage tank apart like it is cardboard.

By: Tom West

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Storage Tank Demolition - Video

Refinery Asset Demolition using Yellow Iron, 20130128
This video shows the demolition of a refinery asset. The yellow iron heavy machinery is impressive in strength and speed.

By: Tom West

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Refinery Asset Demolition using Yellow Iron, 20130128 - Video

321 Fire! Demolition
This is a refinery asset demolition using explosives

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One Demolition Man Lolzzzzzz...............................Kasimi Nafees
this man is really Crazy

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As a demolition crew clears the site of last week's spectacular five-alarm McKinley Park warehouse fire, the South Side loses yet another building--and the city loses another top-flight example of its renowned architecture and urban planning.

The five-story warehouse at 3757 S. Ashland Ave.--images of it ablaze, then sheathed in ice last week were seen around the world--was built in 1919 as the Pullman Couch Company. It was once one of the key buildings in the nation's first industrial park: The Central Manufacturing District, a sprawling, privately planned, owned and developed campus of factories, warehouses and other buildings that stretched from Morgan St. to Western Ave. and from 35th St. to Pershing Rd.

The CMD sold off the buildings in the 1960s and many of its old structures have for years sat empty or underutilized. But the CMD buildings, with their brickwork, graceful proportions and nicely-rendered terra cotta detailing, represent a rather fine rank of industrial architecture and campus planning.

Here's what the once-handsome Pullman Couch building looked like when it opened, courtesy of the University of Minnesota's stellar archive of images from the American Terra Cotta Company. It should have taken something other than fire, ice and now demolition for these buildings to get our attention:

Here you can see the Pullman Couch Company insignia in the frozen-over terra cotta detail:

The Central Manufacturing District was a bustling concern from 1905 until the late 1960s. Big name companies such as retailer Spiegel, Goodyear, Starck Piano Co., the William Wrigley Co., Westinghouse and furniture makers, oil refiners and others located there, taking advantage of shared costs of services provided by the CMD--not to mention its prime location on rail lines and on the Chicago River's South Branch.

Its development predates General Electric's 90-acre Nela Park in East Cleveland, OH, which has long billed itself as the nation's first industrial park. Nela Park construction began in 1911, but the CMD's first buildings appeared in 1905.

The CMD had its own police force, fire department, powerhouse, telegraph office, executive club, freight rail station, banks-even architects who could design buildings for companies locating there.

But the age of the buildings and the midcentury city-to-suburban migration of workers and companies, spelled the end of the CMD and the buildings and land were sold-off individually.

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Fire, ice and now demolition: Saga ends for historic South Side warehouse

As a demolition crew clears the site of last week's spectacular five-alarm McKinley Park warehouse fire, the South Side loses yet another building--and the city loses another top-flight example of its renowned architecture and urban planning.

The five-story warehouse at 3757 S. Ashland Ave.--images of it ablaze, then sheathed in ice last week were seen around the world--was built in 1919 as the Pullman Couch Company. It was once one of the key buildings in the nation's first industrial park: The Central Manufacturing District, a sprawling, privately planned, owned and developed campus of factories, warehouses and other buildings that stretched from Morgan St. to Western Ave. and from 35th St. to Pershing Rd.

The CMD sold off the buildings in the 1960s and many of its old structures have for years sat empty or underutilized. But the CMD buildings, with their brickwork, graceful proportions and nicely-rendered terra cotta detailing, represent a rather fine rank of industrial architecture and campus planning.

Here's what the once-handsome Pullman Couch building looked like when it opened, courtesy of the University of Minnesota's stellar archive of images from the American Terra Cotta Company. It should have taken something other than fire, ice and now demolition for these buildings to get our attention:

Here you can see the Pullman Couch Company insignia in the frozen-over terra cotta detail:

The Central Manufacturing District was a bustling concern from 1905 until the late 1960s. Big name companies such as retailer Spiegel, Goodyear, Starck Piano Co., the William Wrigley Co., Westinghouse and furniture makers, oil refiners and others located there, taking advantage of shared costs of services provided by the CMD--not to mention its prime location on rail lines and on the Chicago River's South Branch.

Its development predates General Electric's 90-acre Nela Park in East Cleveland, OH, which has long billed itself as the nation's first industrial park. Nela Park construction began in 1911, but the CMD's first buildings appeared in 1905.

The CMD had its own police force, fire department, powerhouse, telegraph office, executive club, freight rail station, banks-even architects who could design buildings for companies locating there.

But the age of the buildings and the midcentury city-to-suburban migration of workers and companies, spelled the end of the CMD and the buildings and land were sold-off individually.

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Fire, ice and now demolition