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Beginning of April

Ah, that looks a bit more like it! You can see the bowl cut at the back of the site and the very first test piling rig in place:



Beginning of May

The damp start to summer meant puddles of water across the site, while activity was gearing up for the official start of construction on 22 May:



Beginning of June

With construction officially underway, the first of three large tower cranes were reaching up to 60m into the magnificently dramatic sky:



Still ahead of schedule

Construction on the Stadium started three months ahead of schedule and if you read this week's news you'll see the fast start continues. In this image, a site worker checks the steel reinforcement that will become one of over 4,000 concrete columns forming the foundations of the Stadium: