Wirral to Everton FC Stadium at Bramley Moore Dock episode 17 (9.5.24) 

…and kids falling off bikes 😬

the fog is horror movie with thicker fog

He has

Mark: No, the 'windows' are not really windows. Please excuse me just copying-and-pasting my response to Tommy but when so many people keep asking the same question, it makes life easier to copy and paste and hope that at some point Nick actually reads them. ""Nick, quite a lot of people have asked your question from recent videos in the last month or so. The short headline is that the gaps are designed to be just so. They are a technical necessity and they will not be visible from the West in due course. If you want to know why and how so and the detail behind it, read on. 1) If you recall, the stadium is built in part on 'hard' dock quays and walls but also on the in-filled dock itself. As a result the stadium is actually built in the form of a 3x3 matrix (Think of the grid used for Noughts-and-crosses or Tic-tac-toe), with 2 expansion gaps seen on each side of the stadium, where you can see double steels. The central space of the grid is basically the pitch area (as it doesn't have any real weight sitting on it) and you can follow the lines of the expansion gaps out from the corners of the pitch area. Broadly speaking the North and South Stands sit on a much harder base (the old quays) than the West and East Stands (over the dock water basin). 2) So, where the old dock wall lies is broadly speaking the division between the West and East Stands and the North/South Stands. 3) The West Terrace and Concourse bridges across both old dock wall and old dock basin, so the underlying construct and foundations differ as well. 4) The commitment was made to protect the Old Dock Wall Granite Coping Stones and keep them in view. As a consequence it means that either side of the old Dock Walls the foundations comprise dug-in concrete foundations and the vast majority of the diagonal, Terracing side-cheek concrete wall sits on those foundational concrete slabs. 5) However, the wall can't sit on the old Granite Coping Stones and walls as it would damage them. So, over where the old Granite Coping Stones lie, the top of the Terracing side-cheek wall has to bridge across that structure, effectively a concrete RSJ. 6) BUT, folk may be forgetting that the Terracing Side-cheek walls are due to have Brick Facades mounted on them. When they fit those, they'll close off the current visible gap. 7) I don't know how the finish of the gap will be 'beautified' on the inside, under the mezzanine, but as the Old Dock Wall Granite Coping Stones will remain intentionally visible and protected from anything being placed on them (apart from the bottom of the terrace hovering on it at the outside juncture), I expect it will be made good in some way. {Now that we can see the metal grid, I can guess that it will be finished off internally with paneling, like a metal stud wall). I hope that answers the question suitably."

@@davidbadcock2225 Thanks as always David

Do you mean the west plaza terrace outside the ground or the west stand inside?! If the former, those gaps will be filled in with bricks

Brian: Quite but also a whole lot more besides.

Yeah, definitely sea mist

Ye I’ve never seen it like that before though. Apparently it was a sudden change in temperature

It’s as mentioned just sea mist. 🙂

Ps: remember Nick the lyrics from Mull of Kintyre, “mist rolling in from the sea”

I think the lower tier of SOUTH STAND will be RAIL SEATING to allow for SAFE STANDING, if and when that will be allowed. That will accommodate an extra 10k ish fans .

Reuben: as Steven states but also the Away Fans section at the NE Lower Tier.

Tommy: It's another one of these cases where Nick hasn't read the comments or even forgets them as I posted a long explanation exactly a week ago when he asked the same question on the video. So, I am going to copy it across here with a little editing now that a new feature can be seen (which is the grid structure inside and under the mezzanine which is what you think is glazing, which it isn't). Those holes are not going to be seen from the outside. So, here is the copy across . . . . . "Nick, quite a lot of people have asked your question from recent videos in the last month or so. The short headline is that the gaps are designed to be just so. They are a technical necessity and they will not be visible from the West in due course. If you want to know why and how so and the detail behind it, read on. 1) If you recall, the stadium is built in part on 'hard' dock quays and walls but also on the in-filled dock itself. As a result the stadium is actually built in the form of a 3x3 matrix (Think of the grid used for Noughts-and-crosses or Tic-tac-toe), with 2 expansion gaps seen on each side of the stadium, where you can see double steels. The central space of the grid is basically the pitch area (as it doesn't have any real weight sitting on it) and you can follow the lines of the expansion gaps out from the corners of the pitch area. Broadly speaking the North and South Stands sit on a much harder base (the old quays) than the West and East Stands (over the dock water basin). 2) So, where the old dock wall lies is broadly speaking the division between the West and East Stands and the North/South Stands. 3) The West Terrace and Concourse bridges across both old dock wall and old dock basin, so the underlying construct and foundations differ as well. 4) The commitment was made to protect the Old Dock Wall Granite Coping Stones and keep them in view. As a consequence it means that either side of the old Dock Walls the foundations comprise dug-in concrete foundations and the vast majority of the diagonal, Terracing side-cheek concrete wall sits on those foundational concrete slabs. 5) However, the wall can't sit on the old Granite Coping Stones and walls as it would damage them. So, over where the old Granite Coping Stones lie, the top of the Terracing side-cheek wall has to bridge across that structure, effectively a concrete RSJ. 6) BUT, folk may be forgetting that the Terracing Side-cheek walls are due to have Brick Facades mounted on them. When they fit those, they'll close off the current visible gap. 7) I don't know how the finish of the gap will be 'beautified' on the inside, under the mezzanine, but as the Old Dock Wall Granite Coping Stones will remain intentionally visible and protected from anything being placed on them (apart from the bottom of the terrace hovering on it at the outside juncture), I expect it will be made good in some way. {Now that we can see the metal grid, I can guess that it will be finished off internally with paneling, like a metal stud wall). I hope that answers the question suitably."

@@davidbadcock2225 Brilliant, thanks David. Not sure I'd seen that particular video but definitely hadn't seen your comment. That's de"mist" ified the matter for me. It was all smoke and mirrors... It's not uncomplicated, this construction malarkey is it? I remember many years ago working as a hod-carrier for two brickies. We got a start on a Wimpey site in Noctorum in Birkenhead. It was at footings stage. Being piece-work, a number of the gangs already on site were tipping barrow loads of rubbish into the dug out footing channels and then laying two courses of bricks on top of that. We left the site the same day. Dread to think of the state of those houses now. Fingers crossed for BMD eh..? Hope they managed to weed out any kopites getting on the job....

@@tommymolloy5697 🤣.

stafford is 74.8 miles actually blackpool is 62.7 miles and he said smoke is stafford not see fog as it is know were near the coast

@@garypring2658 Nick said he thought the 'smoke' over Merseyside may be smoke from Stafford. I said Stafford is around 60 miles away, therefore the 'smoke' at that low atltitude on Merseyside, would not be from Stafford. What was seen was sea fog, not smoke