Spectators from far and wide crowded the streets to see the demise of the crisis-hit high rises which were evacuated in March 2001.
Police and council staff began working at 6.30am on Sunday, November 25, 2001, to set up an exclusion zone around the buildings and around 600 homes nearby were evacuated.
As 12 o’clock struck, the charges were fired and first Westmorland House, followed by Cumberland House and finally Northumberland House, plunged to earth all within 10 seconds of the first blast - a history floored.
To mark the anniversary we've collated the best of our pictures from the time.
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