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Creswell Crags Museum and Archaeology Park

- the building in progress
...an archaeological watching brief before the site is cleared.
...cutting out to accommodate the building in the slope of the valley side.
...clearing the trees
....cutting out for the building foundations. ....the foundation trenches are ready for the reinforced concrete.
....reinforcing bars line the foundation trenches before the concrete is poured.
...the drill rigg in action as it bores for the ground source heat system.
....the steel arrives on site and the frame begins to be put in place.
...steel erectors use cherry pickers as they construct the frame.
...the crane winches in a horizontal girder.
...the coffee shop takes shape
...the lower floor frame is complete.
...the last few sections of the lower floor frame form the education rooms.
...the entrance feature and upper floor range of rooms.
...viewed from the other side of the stream from Crags Meadow the steel frame of the building emerges.

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