With WW3 and the financial collapse looming, a trip to Richmond Gardens car park lifts was just what i need. The world just seems good again. Keep doing what your doing JW
I actually found this interesting. :-) As I child I once got a tour of the Express Lifts testing tower in Northampton, lots of interesting machinery up there at the time. I got to stand in the lift where the queen stood when she opened it.
After watching another of John's' Lift' videos I found myself reflecting upon 'Lift' moments in my own life and upon how the 'Lift' has been used to great effect in movies, thinking of the end of Blade Runner. One of my favourite 'Lift' moments on film. I must say I'm really enjoying the 'Lift' vids, I might make one myself :)
Lamps are all burnt out, and that is why there is no display. Seems like nobody in the service crew that works there ever carries a 28V BC indicator lamp, I changed them out with 36V ones to give a long life, as the actual operating voltage is around 26VAC. The noises are from worn retiring cams in the shaft, really should be either adjusted or refurbished , but then again shopping centre managers rarely ever give a hoot so long as they actually still move. Get an inspector in there and he would have a field day, probably would shut down the lifts until repaired to standard. Levelling being slow is just an adjustment, but probably has drifted a lot with time and ropes wearing. Wonder when last that main motor shaft was checked for cracking, required every 5 years for older lifts.... Would not actually put in a new one but refurbish the original stuff. Lasted probably for 40 years and likely to do another 40. The modern ones are obsolete after 10 years and you replace at 15 with another. Can still get almost all parts for the nearly 50 year old lift at work, and it still runs beautifully. All lamps still work and I recently changed out the interior lamps to reduce standby power consumption.
JW - the original installation of these lifts predates the Richmond Garden shopping centre. They were already in place when the building was known as the "Dalkeith Arcade", which was a pretty dark and dingy shopping centre/indoor market. There were a few good sellers in the indoor market, including an independent record shop. The market was located where Lidl/Wilkinsons is now. I remember going there in the 80ies/90ies. In 2011, the place was closed and redeveloped into the Richmond Gardens shopping centre. (That date comes from the Bournemouth Echo, I seem to recall it was before then). When the refurbishment was complete, one lift had been removed (that's the one you found in the stairwell) and the other three had had attention (I won't use the word refurbished as they were still largely original). At one point you could still see into the shaft of the one on its own but it was soon boarded and painted over. All four were Otis lifts, probably with relay logic controllers. I don't think the independent lift in the bank of three was independent at the time, I think that was done a little later as I recall it being out of use for some time. Incidentally, the lift on its own was located closest to the main street entrance. As you walk in and up the slope, the left hand wall comes in at an inwards angle after the last shop on the left. It didn't used to do this - it used to continue straight, and the lift was dead ahead. The refurbishment of the lifts and the shopping centre was largely cosmetic, to make the place look safer, more modern and more appealing, so it wouldn't surprise me if you removed the "new" section of wall and found what's behind it is a little piece of the old Dalkeith Arcade, with the lift fixtures still intact! The levelling problem is relatively recent - they have always been a bit slow but I've never seen them as slow as you found them to be. Looks like some maintenance is required - but as SeanBZA siad, shopping centre managers won't care until they break down completely. Then they'll spend a fortune on completely replacing them when regular maintenance and fault fixing could have kept them going on for much longer.
Thank you for this information, fascinating to finally hear about the history of these lifts! I've done a lot of research in preparation for a video I plan to upload soon, of the 3 main lifts. Everything that you've said tallies perfectly with (what little information) I found. I noticed on the fire alarm panel that there were smoke detectors in 2 additional lift shafts. I found the derelict lift shown in this video, and noticed that a lift looking object is very prominent, as you walk into the shopping centre, at the top of the ramp on the left hand side. I did not realise that this wasn't actually the shaft, but an area around the lift doors which has been, shall we say, boarded off. The other lift shaft on the fire alarm panel appears to be directly opposite (as you walk in, at the top of the slope, on the right, rather than on the left). Would you happen to know what this is / was? I also noticed that the 3 car park lifts (originally part of Dalkeith Arcade) were not all linked together as a triplex (bank of 3). The left two lifts are linked (duplex), and the right hand lift is on its own (simplex). You mentioned that the right hand lift was once out of order for quite some time. When I visited, I discovered that the controller for the right hand lift is not the same as the controllers for the other 2 lifts. I would not be surprised if the controller for the right hand lift was replaced, hence the downtime. This makes perfect sense now. Thank you.
My dad was unusual in that on going into a MS car park on holiday trips (e.g. Blackpool - more later) he'd always go to the top floor of the car park. Once out of the car and it was locked, next came a tour around the periphery of the viewpoint we were standing on! So, back to Blackpool - and we found the lift didn't come to the top floor via the call button - so we walked down a floor and got the lift there. Return journey - similarly the lift wouldn't go all the way to the top. On passing the top floor doors, I investigated - and found them not locked - they slid open easily revealing the view down the shaft !
The music is most lightly intended to dissuade drug dealers / users from hanging around. I notice in the other stairwell there without music there was a lots graffiti on the walls. A shopping center here trialed playing classical music in the streets to try and stop drug deals. i imagine bag pipe music would do much the same. Re the exit is closed sign perhaps some of the same effort people can exit the car park but it discourages people in the shopping center from entering the stairwell.
I'm guessing JW was bored on this day, his missus was in one of the clothes shops in the mall so he slipped off to see what he could make a video about. I love this guys dry wit. Keep up the good work JW.
There's a few people out there that like the older unmodernised lift's e.g. Matt and Chay, I think some of the older more expensive lifts can be very fast and smooth, but I guess there not as reliable as the newer lifts and need more maintenance. I wonder if those old indicator panels don't illuminate because they've stopped replacing the light bulbs? How does it cost to install new lifts when you have 3 working ones?
I'm no stranger to lift maintenance. Though my charges were mostly of the disabilty (domestic) kind. Know Bournmouth, we have relatives there. Never been to this shopping centre though. Your video delivery reminds me of another, thoroughly engaging RUclips uploader - *Potholer54,* who focuses on debunking scientific and other academic myths. Keep up the great work old chap. ;=)
I don't do lifts! however we had a call from the council saying their lift had no power! disconnected top and bottom meggered and found a fault to earth! then followed cable through the floors clipped vertically on unistrut covered with sheets of galvanised steel! riveted together! found big burn mark where one or the rivets had damaged the SWA and a big hole in the cable!
In the row of three lifts, there were originally a row of four lifts, the was an extra lift on the right of the row. When this broke down it was just walled up, you can see the original door area by the uneven wall. This fourth lift has over the years been a good source of spare parts. . The missing lift in the other stairwell was closed off when the emergency exits were changed. There was a planned redevelopment on the car park a few years ago, thus no money is going to be spent for the moment until (if) the redevelopment goes ahead.
Why do I feel that John should make a call to the Samaritans after watching this. Are you really p*ssed off with the whole world John or, just parts of it. Lol.
Oh I don't know, it doesn't appear to be much of a deterent in Glasgow car parks... Where you can still find drug paraphenalia and other unpleasantness in evidence.
The Scottish stairs were clearly designed to have a lift. They may have had a lift and it's been removed. Edit - I typed this before you marked a possible old call button. I'd noticed the lift room from outside and the access hatch above your head in the ceiling which would be used to replace big parts like an MG set.
WOW, what a find... I was first time to visit video place these old elevators from Bournemouth Car Park! What that noise was it elevator motoring or maintenance work??? See3:37sec.
Trying to figure out if the bagpipes was blaring through the tannoy system? We don't even do that in Scotland! lol... our local shopping centre blasts out unsigned music on the stairwells and main areas.
It’s not going through the tannoy system. I’ve been to this car park many a time and to make things creepy, it’s coming from the darkened barred off section upstairs... I believe it’s just a. Loud speaker stereo system but hey... no idea, could be a very enthusiastic scotsman practising 24/7
I like the video. Interesting social commentary. I was expecting you at any minute to take the lift apart, and find some cheap chinese components inside! lol. It would be cool if you could do a video on street lighting. Many an interesing lamp to look at.
I'll share an anecdote absolutely no-one will be interested in reading. I stumbled across this video in my YT feed some weeks back. The usual JW dry assessment we know and love. More recently, by sheer coincidence my work as a peripatetic wrangler and fixer of all things related to point of sale systems took me well off my usual stomping ground and down to Bournemouth. As I drove by signs for Poole on my journey my idle mind peeped "Hmm.. JW must be vaguely around these parts".. thought no more of it, just one of those random thought turds that gets emitted from time to time. Drove into Bournemouth, parked up in the nearest convenient car park for the store I was visiting. As I progressed through the automatic doors towards the lifts an odd sense of deja vu hit me. I stabbed the call button... noting that the ring around it failed to light up. Neither did the one on its partner call button between the other two lifts. Glancing up to see if the over door indicators might suggest some sign of life I saw two older style indicators and one newer LED style.... another more forceful wave of deja vu hit me, still didn't fire enough synapses to think why though... sadly as of that time (Sept 2018) even the LED style indicator was morosely blank. I was however comforted to hear the familiar sound of clacks, whirrs and other noises associated with lift machinery in motion. In time one of the sets of doors wheezed open and down I went to the ground floor and made my escape. It was only when setting foot out of the elevator on the ground floor that the deja vu resolved into "AHA! I know why I recognise this!". It made me smile. Didn't experience any issue with the slowness seen here with the elevator car deciding it had arrived at a floor, so that must have been adjusted in the intervening time. They are however, of their time and progress about their business at the pace I'd expect of such things. I'm always just thankful the elevators are working at all given the loads I have to cart about the place. Unlike other places my work takes me to, these elevators were luxurious when taken relatively. i.e. there was no mouldering corpse or pile of human defecation in a corner, not even a whiff of urine. Anyway.... that's my pointless anecdote (that no-one in the history of ever will read or care about) cast to the winds of YT comments amongst so many millions. Like tears in rain.
Fantastic, I love how creepy it feels when someone has a video in a public lift, and how much more so when someone else is around. I'm also subscribed to "mrmattandmrchay" channel who's an aficionado and creator of youtube archives of old lifts. Thanks John, enjoyable and a few laughs too.
I was expecting to see the Tardis' interior behind one of those lift doors but then I realized, at the very end of the video, it was actually an Umbrella Corporation facility. I can picture corpses jumping at the windows at the side of the last corridor. Can't I?
No motor room? Ahh well, perhaps there would still be relay logic to be seen or do you think its been replaced by generic logic abd an awful VF mod? Those lifts took tired, they have done alot of work over the years but i bet they have a nice solid chassis they could reuse when they get modernised! Did they open up with drop key?
1st world problems? Is this due to a lack of inspection? or maintenance? or both? Is it still safe? Would it have been possible to ask permission to film into the restricted areas? Neglected signage is pretty common everywhere. I'm not sure what the point of this vid was, and I'm left with questions (otherwise, still a fan).
+Benoit Tellier Probably looked that way the day it opened. In Britain we like to make buildings out of concrete slabs so that members of the public can urinate on the walls and floors. Where I live they're building "luxury apartments" next to the train tracks using the exact same concrete warehouse style and selling them to Chinese investors for $472k per one bedroom flat. I was born here and now at the age where I really should be moving out, but seeing the kind of austerity that's being built for us and the premium prices it will cost (rent will be >50% of an average London salary - not the average national salary which is less), maybe it would be better if I just killed myself. Not to worry, in 2016/2017 the bubble is going to burst. Nobody who can afford that wants to rent a grotty concrete flat by the train tracks and the far east investors will be left holding the bag. Ultimately they'll knock the flats down again without anybody ever having lived there. But that's capitalism so it must be good and anybody who questions it is just a communist who needs to be shut down. Unless they're a rich communist from China, in which case, the red carpet is this way sir.
+Christian Nielson Look, it's our language and we'll call things what we like when we use it! Thanks to John for taking us on this guided tour of this creaky and obscure corner of Merry Old England and thank goodness some of us are eccentric enough to appreciate your trouble. It was certainly different. For the rest of you, just a reminder; watching this video is not compulsory.
+Derek Gray according to Frikipedia all foreigners are called -guiris-, does not matter whatever they are coming from. If that pisses then off then the next thing we call then is -aliens- and we normally SMS Ellen Ripley for her final intervention.
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I don't know why but I found this hilarious.
For people who,cant count to 5. I really enjoyed this video. Me Trev and you are inspiring me to do similar videos when I get my wheels back.
Is this video for people who live in a country without lifts? I don't get it.
With WW3 and the financial collapse looming, a trip to Richmond Gardens car park lifts was just what i need. The world just seems good again. Keep doing what your doing JW
I actually found this interesting. :-) As I child I once got a tour of the Express Lifts testing tower in Northampton, lots of interesting machinery up there at the time. I got to stand in the lift where the queen stood when she opened it.
Always loved a trip to Numpton from the West Country seeing the lift tower then bridge st😊
After watching another of John's' Lift' videos I found myself reflecting upon 'Lift' moments in my own life and upon how the 'Lift' has been used to great effect in movies, thinking of the end of Blade Runner. One of my favourite 'Lift' moments on film. I must say I'm really enjoying the 'Lift' vids, I might make one myself :)
Lamps are all burnt out, and that is why there is no display. Seems like nobody in the service crew that works there ever carries a 28V BC indicator lamp, I changed them out with 36V ones to give a long life, as the actual operating voltage is around 26VAC.
The noises are from worn retiring cams in the shaft, really should be either adjusted or refurbished , but then again shopping centre managers rarely ever give a hoot so long as they actually still move. Get an inspector in there and he would have a field day, probably would shut down the lifts until repaired to standard. Levelling being slow is just an adjustment, but probably has drifted a lot with time and ropes wearing. Wonder when last that main motor shaft was checked for cracking, required every 5 years for older lifts....
Would not actually put in a new one but refurbish the original stuff. Lasted probably for 40 years and likely to do another 40. The modern ones are obsolete after 10 years and you replace at 15 with another. Can still get almost all parts for the nearly 50 year old lift at work, and it still runs beautifully. All lamps still work and I recently changed out the interior lamps to reduce standby power consumption.
Johns 'Unfortunate ' visit to a shopping centre including 'Joy Riding' the lifts ~~~~~ Alas no joy was found ~~~~~
An unusual but oddly interesting video, thanks for sharing.
JW - the original installation of these lifts predates the Richmond Garden shopping centre. They were already in place when the building was known as the "Dalkeith Arcade", which was a pretty dark and dingy shopping centre/indoor market. There were a few good sellers in the indoor market, including an independent record shop. The market was located where Lidl/Wilkinsons is now. I remember going there in the 80ies/90ies. In 2011, the place was closed and redeveloped into the Richmond Gardens shopping centre. (That date comes from the Bournemouth Echo, I seem to recall it was before then).
When the refurbishment was complete, one lift had been removed (that's the one you found in the stairwell) and the other three had had attention (I won't use the word refurbished as they were still largely original). At one point you could still see into the shaft of the one on its own but it was soon boarded and painted over. All four were Otis lifts, probably with relay logic controllers. I don't think the independent lift in the bank of three was independent at the time, I think that was done a little later as I recall it being out of use for some time.
Incidentally, the lift on its own was located closest to the main street entrance. As you walk in and up the slope, the left hand wall comes in at an inwards angle after the last shop on the left. It didn't used to do this - it used to continue straight, and the lift was dead ahead. The refurbishment of the lifts and the shopping centre was largely cosmetic, to make the place look safer, more modern and more appealing, so it wouldn't surprise me if you removed the "new" section of wall and found what's behind it is a little piece of the old Dalkeith Arcade, with the lift fixtures still intact!
The levelling problem is relatively recent - they have always been a bit slow but I've never seen them as slow as you found them to be. Looks like some maintenance is required - but as SeanBZA siad, shopping centre managers won't care until they break down completely. Then they'll spend a fortune on completely replacing them when regular maintenance and fault fixing could have kept them going on for much longer.
"Dalkeith Arcade" - that explains the bagpipes !
Thank you for this information, fascinating to finally hear about the history of these lifts! I've done a lot of research in preparation for a video I plan to upload soon, of the 3 main lifts.
Everything that you've said tallies perfectly with (what little information) I found. I noticed on the fire alarm panel that there were smoke detectors in 2 additional lift shafts. I found the derelict lift shown in this video, and noticed that a lift looking object is very prominent, as you walk into the shopping centre, at the top of the ramp on the left hand side. I did not realise that this wasn't actually the shaft, but an area around the lift doors which has been, shall we say, boarded off.
The other lift shaft on the fire alarm panel appears to be directly opposite (as you walk in, at the top of the slope, on the right, rather than on the left). Would you happen to know what this is / was?
I also noticed that the 3 car park lifts (originally part of Dalkeith Arcade) were not all linked together as a triplex (bank of 3). The left two lifts are linked (duplex), and the right hand lift is on its own (simplex).
You mentioned that the right hand lift was once out of order for quite some time. When I visited, I discovered that the controller for the right hand lift is not the same as the controllers for the other 2 lifts. I would not be surprised if the controller for the right hand lift was replaced, hence the downtime.
This makes perfect sense now. Thank you.
Best JW video EVER!
5:11 ha ha; I love you’re sense of Humor, John!
Can't wait for part 2!
Cool - nice to see that your country have lifts in bigger shopping center too. ;-) Old Otis lifts works and works ...
My dad was unusual in that on going into a MS car park on holiday trips (e.g. Blackpool - more later) he'd always go to the top floor of the car park. Once out of the car and it was locked, next came a tour around the periphery of the viewpoint we were standing on!
So, back to Blackpool - and we found the lift didn't come to the top floor via the call button - so we walked down a floor and got the lift there. Return journey - similarly the lift wouldn't go all the way to the top. On passing the top floor doors, I investigated - and found them not locked - they slid open easily revealing the view down the shaft !
I'm thinking myself lucky we don't have smell-o-vision on you tube yet!
The music is most lightly intended to dissuade drug dealers / users from hanging around. I notice in the other stairwell there without music there was a lots graffiti on the walls. A shopping center here trialed playing classical music in the streets to try and stop drug deals. i imagine bag pipe music would do much the same.
Re the exit is closed sign perhaps some of the same effort people can exit the car park but it discourages people in the shopping center from entering the stairwell.
Looks like you have a new niche, -lift reviews. Interesting and entertaining, more please John. (Some motor rooms can be accessed!)
Pete, I don't suppose you work in Birmingham !
Yeah, there's deffo a lift fanatic club - in fact, not just in the UK !
I'm guessing JW was bored on this day, his missus was in one of the clothes shops in the mall so he slipped off to see what he could make a video about.
I love this guys dry wit. Keep up the good work JW.
There's a few people out there that like the older unmodernised lift's e.g. Matt and Chay, I think some of the older more expensive lifts can be very fast and smooth, but I guess there not as reliable as the newer lifts and need more maintenance. I wonder if those old indicator panels don't illuminate because they've stopped replacing the light bulbs? How does it cost to install new lifts when you have 3 working ones?
what is boumounth like .i.ve never been is it always sunny as its near the south coast? did you enjoy it John Ward
I'm no stranger to lift maintenance. Though my charges were mostly of the disabilty (domestic) kind. Know Bournmouth, we have relatives there.
Never been to this shopping centre though.
Your video delivery reminds me of another, thoroughly engaging RUclips uploader - *Potholer54,* who focuses on debunking scientific and other academic myths. Keep up the great work old chap. ;=)
I don't do lifts! however we had a call from the council saying their lift had no power! disconnected top and bottom meggered and found a fault to earth!
then followed cable through the floors clipped vertically on unistrut covered with sheets of galvanised steel! riveted together! found big burn mark where one or the rivets had damaged the SWA and a big hole in the cable!
In the row of three lifts, there were originally a row of four lifts, the was an extra lift on the right of the row. When this broke down it was just walled up, you can see the original door area by the uneven wall. This fourth lift has over the years been a good source of spare parts.
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The missing lift in the other stairwell was closed off when the emergency exits were changed.
There was a planned redevelopment on the car park a few years ago, thus no money is going to be spent for the moment until (if) the redevelopment goes ahead.
Why do I feel that John should make a call to the Samaritans after watching this. Are you really p*ssed off with the whole world John or, just parts of it. Lol.
Scottish music could help discourage loitering.
Oh I don't know, it doesn't appear to be much of a deterent in Glasgow car parks... Where you can still find drug paraphenalia and other unpleasantness in evidence.
The Scottish stairs were clearly designed to have a lift. They may have had a lift and it's been removed.
Edit - I typed this before you marked a possible old call button. I'd noticed the lift room from outside and the access hatch above your head in the ceiling which would be used to replace big parts like an MG set.
The danger it could attract Scottish people was probably considered unlikely so far south.
Pretty interesting these lifts in thought! ^_^
WOW, what a find... I was first time to visit video place these old elevators from Bournemouth Car Park! What that noise was it elevator motoring or maintenance work??? See3:37sec.
Trying to figure out if the bagpipes was blaring through the tannoy system? We don't even do that in Scotland! lol... our local shopping centre blasts out unsigned music on the stairwells and main areas.
It’s not going through the tannoy system. I’ve been to this car park many a time and to make things creepy, it’s coming from the darkened barred off section upstairs... I believe it’s just a. Loud speaker stereo system but hey... no idea, could be a very enthusiastic scotsman practising 24/7
hiya John! Seems like you like lifts! Old lifts are made using relays if you didn't know, and the new ones are made using microprocessors
I like the video. Interesting social commentary. I was expecting you at any minute to take the lift apart, and find some cheap chinese components inside! lol. It would be cool if you could do a video on street lighting. Many an interesing lamp to look at.
Bit of a different video John. Enjoyed it however. Shame you didn't get access to the plant room on the roof, would of been really cool.
+Kevin Osborne The shoppers would think otherwise. John would have started taking everything apart!
I'll share an anecdote absolutely no-one will be interested in reading.
I stumbled across this video in my YT feed some weeks back. The usual JW dry assessment we know and love.
More recently, by sheer coincidence my work as a peripatetic wrangler and fixer of all things related to point of sale systems took me well off my usual stomping ground and down to Bournemouth. As I drove by signs for Poole on my journey my idle mind peeped "Hmm.. JW must be vaguely around these parts".. thought no more of it, just one of those random thought turds that gets emitted from time to time. Drove into Bournemouth, parked up in the nearest convenient car park for the store I was visiting.
As I progressed through the automatic doors towards the lifts an odd sense of deja vu hit me.
I stabbed the call button... noting that the ring around it failed to light up. Neither did the one on its partner call button between the other two lifts. Glancing up to see if the over door indicators might suggest some sign of life I saw two older style indicators and one newer LED style.... another more forceful wave of deja vu hit me, still didn't fire enough synapses to think why though... sadly as of that time (Sept 2018) even the LED style indicator was morosely blank. I was however comforted to hear the familiar sound of clacks, whirrs and other noises associated with lift machinery in motion.
In time one of the sets of doors wheezed open and down I went to the ground floor and made my escape. It was only when setting foot out of the elevator on the ground floor that the deja vu resolved into "AHA! I know why I recognise this!".
It made me smile.
Didn't experience any issue with the slowness seen here with the elevator car deciding it had arrived at a floor, so that must have been adjusted in the intervening time. They are however, of their time and progress about their business at the pace I'd expect of such things. I'm always just thankful the elevators are working at all given the loads I have to cart about the place.
Unlike other places my work takes me to, these elevators were luxurious when taken relatively. i.e. there was no mouldering corpse or pile of human defecation in a corner, not even a whiff of urine.
Anyway.... that's my pointless anecdote (that no-one in the history of ever will read or care about) cast to the winds of YT comments amongst so many millions. Like tears in rain.
Fantastic, I love how creepy it feels when someone has a video in a public lift, and how much more so when someone else is around. I'm also subscribed to "mrmattandmrchay" channel who's an aficionado and creator of youtube archives of old lifts.
Thanks John, enjoyable and a few laughs too.
I was expecting to see the Tardis' interior behind one of those lift doors but then I realized, at the very end of the video, it was actually an Umbrella Corporation facility. I can picture corpses jumping at the windows at the side of the last corridor. Can't I?
I went in a lift as well john oh the joy
If DJ John Peel had become a lift reviewer instead :)
No motor room? Ahh well, perhaps there would still be relay logic to be seen or do you think its been replaced by generic logic abd an awful VF mod? Those lifts took tired, they have done alot of work over the years but i bet they have a nice solid chassis they could reuse when they get modernised! Did they open up with drop key?
There used to be a building where I live that had manually operated lifts
I heard about a building where a man operated the lift.
Im not far from Bournemouth epic lifts
1st world problems?
Is this due to a lack of inspection? or maintenance? or both? Is it still safe? Would it have been possible to ask permission to film into the restricted areas? Neglected signage is pretty common everywhere. I'm not sure what the point of this vid was, and I'm left with questions (otherwise, still a fan).
+Benoit Tellier Probably looked that way the day it opened. In Britain we like to make buildings out of concrete slabs so that members of the public can urinate on the walls and floors.
Where I live they're building "luxury apartments" next to the train tracks using the exact same concrete warehouse style and selling them to Chinese investors for $472k per one bedroom flat. I was born here and now at the age where I really should be moving out, but seeing the kind of austerity that's being built for us and the premium prices it will cost (rent will be >50% of an average London salary - not the average national salary which is less), maybe it would be better if I just killed myself.
Not to worry, in 2016/2017 the bubble is going to burst. Nobody who can afford that wants to rent a grotty concrete flat by the train tracks and the far east investors will be left holding the bag. Ultimately they'll knock the flats down again without anybody ever having lived there.
But that's capitalism so it must be good and anybody who questions it is just a communist who needs to be shut down. Unless they're a rich communist from China, in which case, the red carpet is this way sir.
+artifactingreality shut up
+SayWhatNow92 Touched a nerve?
Are they Furse lifts ?
Why oh why J.W. ? ....
Always hated that car park, I live about 2.5 miles down the road
The Lift was removed (as it looks like) ...
Less lifts = less maintenance costs ^^
near where I live that would be a modern lift. and I am not joking. strange video.
3:41 To keep drug users from hanging out. It's extremely common in French car parks.
26 people aren't elevated...
i wanted to see the elevators disassembled and checked for flaws with some witty commentry:)
what a strange video
You got it!
Looks like they need to hire a new engineer and buy some new equipment.
There not fucking nasty there awesome
Love you videos but not this one... I didn't see the point at all. Sorry. Just saying.
I was the first viewer
You brits are strange... You call elevators "lifts" and shopping carts "trollys". Next thing we know you guys will be calling cookies "biscuits"...
+Christian Nielson
Look, it's our language and we'll call things what we like when we use it!
Thanks to John for taking us on this guided tour of this creaky and obscure corner of Merry Old England and thank goodness some of us are eccentric enough to appreciate your trouble. It was certainly different.
For the rest of you, just a reminder; watching this video is not compulsory.
+Christian Nielson wait til ypu hear what we call foriegners :)
+Derek Gray according to Frikipedia all foreigners are called -guiris-, does not matter whatever they are coming from. If that pisses then off then the next thing we call then is -aliens- and we normally SMS Ellen Ripley for her final intervention.
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what is boumounth like .i.ve never been is it always sunny as its near the south coast? did you enjoy it John Ward