Ronan Point | London Tower Blocks | Safety concerns | 1980s tower block | TN-84-102-026

5 people died after the partial collapse of Ronan Point.
THAMES NEWS - 28.9.84 - RONAN POINT - NEW STRUCTURAL FAULTS
DISCOVERED AT RONAN POINT AND FIVE OTHER TOWER BLOCKS IN NEWHAM - IT WILL COST MILLIONS TO RECTIFY
PM 84/102/26
interv. Fred Jones, Housing Committee
Carole Patrick, tenant
Mary Price, tenant
GVs RonanPoint disaster 1968 - already on file - Check copyright
damaged exterior walls, scaffolding
Reporter: Mark Wordsworth
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Quote: TN-84-102-026
Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.

[@dominewimbury2039]

I lived in a high rise in Charlton until I was six in 1991. Never felt unsafe from the building then but now I look back and shudder

[@lindseygordon3406]

Mental note: NEVER accept a property in a high rise, it seems none are safe

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Not true

[@OffGridInvestor]

If you have watched the doco on why they were junk or even have building engineers explain stuff to you (my brother in law is one) or SIMPLY HAVE ANY building/construction industry experience, you would KNOW why these were junk, how they were built as a concrete house of cards with no frame, and how NOTHING seemed to line up in terms of bolts with only ONE QUARTER of the bolts attached and even badly poured precast panels.... you wouldn't drive a car built like that. I have worked for a place that hires modular formwork for concrete poured ON SITE and know enough about how things can go wrong to understand how badly these tower blocks were done. Our customers build skyscrapers, huge public buildings, office blocks, some train infrastructure, water infrastructure and quite a bit of underground tunnels.

[@Juliukas101]

Bollocks! Some are lovely.

[@lindseygordon3406]

If yous don't understand context etc yous probably shouldn't reply to stuff on the internet 🙄

[@Juliukas101]

@@lindseygordon3406 I understand that you have made a sweeping generalisation that is untrue, so perhaps you should go away and educate yourself.

[@christinefitzpatrick5256]

They should just pull the defected block of flats down. I lived in Ronan point at the time of the disaster with my parents now passed.

[@OffGridInvestor]

I thought it would have been long gone.

[@dominewimbury2039]

@@OffGridInvestor these are long gone. Perhaps the original poster didn't know that though. They were pulled down in 1986, two years after this news report

[@ryanb7385]

@@dominewimbury2039 There are about 500 tower blocks in the UK built using the concrete panels, they have not been demolished.

[@tsrgoinc]

I lived in Gannon Point until 1985. They survived the great storm of ‘87 but most people that say these are safe forget they were empty, add the extra weight of people, belongings, closes, furniture and fittings, from 110 flats and you were talking on average about 2 Tonnes per flat, thats 220 extra tonnes, plus if one of Merrit, Ronan, Buckham and I think John Sopp had toppled in right/wrong direction depending how you look at it, they could well have brought 2 other blocks down due to their proximity. They need all need to come down around the country!

[@Vorrimade]

my right ear is lonely

[@RonanNotRyan]

Okay, now this is awkward...

[@andrewh2u]

Unskilled labor hired for the construction on piecework pay rates, who filled structural joints they could not see with trash and paper instead of concrete and missed eighty percent of the bolts holding the structural walls to the floors which are necessary to stop a 'house of cards' cascade collapse. There is no way that I would feel safe in any of these buildings that (barely) stand today.