Exploring An Abandoned Debenhams In Reading
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- This was a Debenhams shop in Reading which closed during the first half of 2020. The shop used to have 3 floors, but the top floor has been turned into a Home Furnishing shop. This was one of 2 large department stores in the Oracle Shopping Centre.
You are able to walk around the top floor of the new shop, but the 2 floors below have been blocked off. The escalators down have been barriered off and they have put decorative wood around the escalators to stop you from seeing down there.
The lifts are still operational and are only there so that you can access the Car Park floors above. The buttons to go down to the abandoned floors are locked off. However, being quite observant, I noticed that the lift on the left parks down on the bottom floor while not in use. That's how I got down there.
I felt unsure that the lift would come back down again if I called it, so I left my bag in between the doors to stop the lift from leaving.
While I was exploring the 1st floor, I noticed that there was someone working. That's why I ended the video. I don't think they noticed me though.
Amazing video. Very interesting.
Thanks
So next beauty and home was above this level at the time?
Yes
Wow it's so strange seeing Debenhams Reading so empty. I have also Subcribed
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Very Interesting, shame Debenhams has closed down for good though, great video!
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Now this is very very interesting, well done for being observant! Do you go to The Oracle often? If this is a shopping centre you go to a lot, then I'm not surprised you noticed that the lifts park down there!
They never used to park on the Ground Floor, they used to just stay where they left off. I guess they were messing around with the logic a lot as they were locking off the bottom floors. Only the one on the right will park on Ground, and the one on the left will also only ever answer your call if the other one is busy.
It will also only park on Ground if the other one is busy. In order to get the one on the left to park on Ground, you must send the one on the right up to the Car Park. My guess as to why it does this is that while one lift is at the top, the other one goes down to efficiently answer any lower calls in case it receives any. It could just be a bug though, I'm not sure. The one on the right parks on the shop floor as it should.
Hope you understand, but feel free to ask more.
@@Lift.Tracker Oh interesting, thanks for replying.
@@MichalM The lifts no longer have the logic programming mistake. I tried doing this again the other day and the lifts now work as they’re supposed to. I think they fixed it. Maybe they saw this video? lol
@@Lift.Tracker Oh dear, what a shame. Do you know if Debenhams have vacated the unit now?
@@MichalM This Debenhams closed about a year ago now. It’s just recently that the new shop opened, but it only uses 1 floor.
Haha good video i tryed hear today but seems the shop is a diffrent shop already haha
Last comment, I promise. Is the Konexion still there and working?
Hi, sorry I missed this comment. Do you mean the alarm panel? Yes, it’s still there. I’ve never tried pressing it though.
And don’t worry about commenting often. It doesn’t bother me at all. :-)
@@Lift.Tracker Ok.
Why are LM and R labeled? Are they the old Debenhams labels?
The reason for that is because during 2018, the shopping centre had a slight refurbishment. In the refurbishment, they changed all the floor numbering from letters to numbers. It used to be “R, LM, UM” but now it’s “0, 1, 2”. On all the main lifts, they replaced the button signs, but in the shop lifts they just put a sticker next to the old ones.
The “R” stands for “Riverside”.
@@Lift.Tracker But wouldn't Next have got rid of the 0 and the 1 and change 2 to Store Level?
@@EEverything360 They should’ve done that, but they just haven’t. Maybe they will eventually.
Is their hand dryers still here?
Probably
@@Lift.Tracker can you have a look next time pls?
@@SpLashEditzVFX I can’t I’m afraid. That was just a one of bit of luck being able to go in there. It’s not actually ‘abandoned’, it’s just an unused part of the shopping centre.
@@Lift.Tracker oo ok but next time you do abandoned videos please can you test the hand dryers thanks
this is insane! might have to give it ago ;)
It’s quite cool to see. It’s not entirely abandoned, more like unused, but it’s still good to take a look at. Getting the lift to go down there isn’t very straight forward though. You have to take advantage of a few software bugs in the lift logic to get it to do it. I’d be happy to help though if you want to try it. :-)
@@Lift.Tracker yeah would be good to do, I'm popping into reading town today so gunna try have a quick look around!
@@exploringwithjp3772 How did it go?
@@Lift.Tracker we walked round tryna get in and jut had no luck- there were works in there and we look very sus so left it for the day
@@exploringwithjp3772 Yeah. You need to use the lift. It’s the only way to get down there. But as I said, it’s not that simple and it requires a bit of knowledge about lift logics to get it to do what you want.
Is the lift to the restaurant still in use?
Yes, it’s now a staff lift. They added a fake wall and some doors to cover it up.
@@Lift.Tracker The lift or the area where it is?
@@Lift.Tracker That unit could be in much better condition. If I owned the shopping centre, I'd make it so whoever bought it had to occupy it properly. I think John Lewis should've turned it into a John Lewis At Home store.
@@Lift.Tracker Harvey Nichols would've been amother good option.
@@EEverything360 They blocked off the area where the lift is. They have separated all of the floors into separate units. The shopping centre did that themselves as there aren’t any other shops which would go in there that would take up the whole place. There’s already a John Lewis right outside on the HighStreet. The shopping centre allows anyone who’ll pay to be in there. :-)
Where’s this?
It’s in Reading
@@Lift.Tracker cool