An Everton supporter has released stunning "timelapse" footage of Bramley-Moore Dock to perfectly show how the new stadium project has transformed the area over the past year.
This week marked the anniversary of the Blues being handed the keys for the waterfront site, with work officially getting underway for their state-of-the-art new home on August 10th 2021. It's understood that the club are planning content around that historic day when it comes around next month.
However, there has still been a lot of focus on the time that Everton first took ownership of what would become their new home, and rightly so. Since that point, the area has undergone a complete transformation, and the hard work is still far from over.
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Throughout that time, the club themselves have regularly put out major updates not just visually showcasing the latest changes from construction but also explaining them perfectly to supporters. Fans have managed to keep up to date with all of the below-ground and above-ground work as it has happened, with expert analysis and explanation of each process as every milestone has been passed.
Alongside that, and just as important in many respect, has been the footage shared by a number of supporters who have often took their time to travel down to the area. Drone fly-overs have been a regular occurrence over the past 12 months throughout the Blues taking each important step towards completing their 52,888-seater stadium.
One of those fans has been YouTube user Barry1878, who has become popular with a wide section of Evertonians for his updates from Bramley-Moore Dock. To mark the occasion that the Blues have owned the site for over a year, his latest video on the social media platform is a "timelapse" depicting just how much the area has changed over the course of the last 12 months.
The video begins with an intriguing look back at how the site looked before any work had begun. The large body of water of course dominated the dock, with various buildings and warehouses dotted around the edges alongside the listed hydraulic tower.
That quickly moves through into the non-listed structures being demolished and cleared, while the infill process begins in the water. Soon, the video footage shows the sand being visible above the water-line for the first time, with fantastic views of the dredger docked in the Mersey being used to pump 450,000 cubic metres of fluidised sand into the site.
A few minutes into the video, comprised of sped-up drone footage, the dock is completely filled with sand which is being compacted - started from near the hydraulic tower which is covered in scaffolding. That's still the case today, to protect the listed building from any of the activity going on around it at this stage.
Soon afterwards the video shows the first above-ground works being completed with concrete foundations being laid in some areas of the site. The superstructure has continued to rise on these four corners, and now towers over the dock walls as work has reached an exciting stage.
AS the footage progresses, the amount of activity on the site seems to increase with every passing second. The first elements of the steelwork can be spotted towards the end of the video, with the clips closing out with the scene Evertonians are met with from the area today.
As things stand, the framework of the stands is clearly visible in any images from the site. And, away from Bramley-Moore Dock, the first brick-faced panels that will clad the outside of the ground have been produced.
All of this has been achieved in just 12 months, and it's extremely exciting to think about how the area could look in another year's time.
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