'From one night to the next, everything is gone': As demolition crews moved in, heartbroken families watched their homes reduced to rubble
direct to your inboxWhen it began on Tuesday afternoon, the demolition process was brutal.A man was winched in via a huge crane armed with a pickaxe and a chainsaw and simply began hacking at what remains of four homes on Walmer Street, Abbey Hey.First he pulled off roof tiles, then he cut through wooden beams, and eventually bits started falling off of their own accord.It was heartbreaking to see for those watching below.Through no fault of their own, four sets of families have lost almost their entire worldly possessions in the blink of an eye.Early on the evening of 20 January, in the midst of the downpours brought by Storm Christoph, huge cracks started to appear in the walls at numbers 23 and 25.Fortunately, both those families fled