article_snippet: But in a mere eight seconds Highcourt, a 20-storey tower block measuring more than 190ft high in the Orchard Park estate of Hull, was flattened to leave just a pile of rubble behind.
article_snippet: People lined the streets to watch the demolition, which took place almost 50 years after the high rise was first built.
article_snippet: Highcourt, Hull's tallest building (left) containing flats, was demolished and turned into a pile of rubble (right) in just eight seconds .
article_snippet: Tower was demolished using explosives on Sunday afternoon.
article_snippet: Tower was knocked down as part of a 'masterplan' for the state which will see a new shopping centre, a care home and affordable housing built.
article_snippet: But for some people who had seen the vast tower block planned and built, the scale and speed of the vast tower block destruction was a sad event.
article_snippet: Highcourt was built in 1969 to help with the housing crisis and extended over 19 floors but yesterday explosives were used to demolish the housing crisis .
article_snippet: The building began to topple to the right hand side as explosives tore through the bottom section and dust and rubble collected .
article_snippet: As Tower began to fall huge plumes of smoke and clouds of dust were seen coming from The building as The building clattered towards the ground .
article_snippet: In seconds The building fell towards the ground to make way for a planned new estate that will see new houses built .
article_snippet: Eight seconds after the explosion this block of flats was no more, and replaced by smoke and piles or rubble as workmen looked on . '
article_snippet: I remember The building being celebrated because there was a houses shortage at the time
article_snippet: but now The building demolition is being celebrated.
article_snippet: Jim Roles, 61, said: 'I can't believe that a block of flats that size, which took an age to build, could be demolished as quickly as that.
article_snippet: The building was flattened to the ground on Sunday afternoon and workers will now have to begin clearing the large site .
article_snippet: All that is left of Highcourt high rise is now large slabs of concrete and twisted metal after The building was demolished within a matter of seconds .
article_snippet: so Highcourt is a big deal that it is coming down
highlights_snippet: But block of flats to deal with the housing crisis in 1960s was demolished on Sunday using explosives and was turned into a pile of rubble and dust in eight seconds .
  
highlights_snippet: Tower demolished for new development thatwill include a care home, shopping centre and affordable housing .