The giant truck looks like a crane from a distance – but it is actually a huge cement pump, which was being used to pump liquid concrete up to the upper floors of a major construction project.

It was part of the work to redevelop what in the past was a Clinton Cards shop on Fargate, into an entertainment building to be called Events Central.

Technic Concrete Pumping had sent one of its trucks to the scene to carry out repairs where some of the steel beams used in concrete floors in the past had corroded.

It was used to pump concrete, poured into the giant machine by a concrete mixer truck behind it, up to the fourth floor of the building.

There, the concrete is being used along with new girders to fix some of the floors.

Fargate had to be narrowed to a small walkway while the work was carried out.

Once complete, the new venue, a £14.4 million project, will be home to a 200-person capacity live event space, a café/bar area on the ground floor with the four upper floors being used as co-working space along with meeting rooms.

It is expected the venue will be able to host a wide-ranging programme of community events, showcases, exhibitions, workshops and talks when work is complete.

It is the latest scheme to be carried on on Fargate, which has also had a major £15 million facelift in recent years to change its appearance, with a new surface, and new planted areas.

The street was traditionally the city’s most famous shopping street, and remains home to some of the city’s biggest name retailers, including Marks and Spencer.

It has undergone many transformations over years, and was one of the first city centre streets to be pedestrianised over 50 years ago. It also once had a fountain at the top, which was made famous in a song by Pulp as the ‘fountain down the road.”