1:49 That's a really quiet escalator. The ones in the Washington Metro practically scream by comparison. I'm curious how it is maintained that well considering it's abandoned.
I would have plugged my phone in and just play loads of music that wouldn't have been able to be played when it was open (imagine break stuff by Limp Bizkit 😂)
@@xboxgamingperson1214 Yeah me too! Even just 2 years ago Carlisle was so much better for lifts with the Debenhams lifts and the Otis Atlantic in the library and now that is 3 really good lifts lost! Maybe something will open in Debenhams one day and the lifts will return! Hope so!
for anyone looking: according to @benolifts in a reply to a comment by @realthegraydiamond "[its] the escalator fire shutter reporting that the fire alarm system is offline"
-If only we had the jailbreaker, then we might be able to work out the mystery as to why lift 1 won't accept calls in normal.- And I had to watch a few seconds after this comment to find the answer.
Hi Beno! Could you put a brief summary of the places you visit in description? Since you speak very fast non-English users may understand better what happens in the video. Thanks! ❤️
This place is one of many Debenhams department stores. Debenhams was the largest chain of department stores in the UK. Over the years they had taken over many shops such as many of the Alders stores. In the last few years Debenhams had become very outdated. Their products were not good value. And the concept of a department store has become old fashioned and not profitable. Retail has declined in the UK due to coopetition from Amazon. The remaining retail demand has moved to large retail park shops. Retail parks have very ugly shops that look horrid, but are much better for choice. The shops are so big that there is more range to chose from. While in an old fashioned department store, despite the store being big, as they try to sell everything there is not much choice on any type of product. Then coronavirus came which accelerated the retail decline and Debenhams didn't have enough funds to get through the shutdown of the pandemic. Debenhams went bankrupt in November 2020.
It's very common for the services to be retained when a building is between leaseholders. It is considered a very trivial cost in the bigger scheme of things.
Those modifications are an example of how people can be conned by good salespeople. You should only ever or upgrade something if it has deficiencies in its design or operation or if it's built out of parts that cannot be obtained, easily fabricated, or subsituted. Adding random components to an old design and calling it "job done" is just stupid. From what I have seen of older lifts is that every part could be replaced with a new part or something could be fabricated as a substitute. For example, take the doors, just replace every bearing (I doubt lift manufactures ever made bearings), and fill other worn parts with weld and grind them down.. far easier and better than taking something else and attempting to make it fit.
It’s a shame they cover up those door windows, they’re in use on the transport networks. It’s disappointing spend money to do that when they should have kept them like so many other places. If it was the 1960s one they might have used the control panel key.
And Co-Op department store. They were epic. Nice old Pickerings lifts. All the furniture in my house is from Co-op department store and is 20 years old and still is great condition.
Riding mannequins up the escalator lol 😛
Funnu
Funny
Gutted that Debenhams isn’t no more. Rest in Peace Debenhams.
Noticed the video quality has increased. Love it!
Was there no management suite or CCTV room?
I like how nothing is off limits in your videos. Equipment rooms, Cctv rooms, building controls lol.
1:49 That's a really quiet escalator. The ones in the Washington Metro practically scream by comparison. I'm curious how it is maintained that well considering it's abandoned.
Fantastic. I'd have tried making an announcement over the PA system.
I would have plugged my phone in and just play loads of music that wouldn't have been able to be played when it was open (imagine break stuff by Limp Bizkit 😂)
Miss going into Debenhams with the awesome 3rd generation ecodiscs in Newcastle and Kone modded Otis 2000 in Carlisle.
Hopefully they'll become something like Frasers where they'd probably keep the lifts.
I'm from Carlisle, just walking by the market and seeing debenhams now makes the town look a bit unusual lol.
I’m near Carlisle miss the old Debenhams lifts 😔
@@xboxgamingperson1214 Yeah me too! Even just 2 years ago Carlisle was so much better for lifts with the Debenhams lifts and the Otis Atlantic in the library and now that is 3 really good lifts lost! Maybe something will open in Debenhams one day and the lifts will return! Hope so!
Nooom i miss debenhams so much they always have such nice lifts
What causes that beeping you were able to hear in some floors?
Generic logic
It was the escalator fire shutter reporting that the fire alarm system is offline
@@benolifts Ahh! Thanks for the info
What is the beeping noise at 1:11?
Edit: I found out by looking at a comment further down below
for anyone looking: according to @benolifts in a reply to a comment by @realthegraydiamond "[its] the escalator fire shutter reporting that the fire alarm system is offline"
I got Colleague of the Month in November 2020 where I work 🙂
Whose a good boy then?
@@TonyLing 😁
RIP Debenhams (as a physical shop)
-If only we had the jailbreaker, then we might be able to work out the mystery as to why lift 1 won't accept calls in normal.- And I had to watch a few seconds after this comment to find the answer.
21:47 AND some Trusound TB2 wall speakers! Lots of treasures!
my fav part is the esclator where manquane go up escator
1:52 Mannequin on an escalator,
It's going upstairs so see ya later,
Bye bye,
To the sky,
I'm wanting to see if it comes back!
Never...
it funny
Hi Beno! Could you put a brief summary of the places you visit in description? Since you speak very fast non-English users may understand better what happens in the video. Thanks! ❤️
This place is one of many Debenhams department stores. Debenhams was the largest chain of department stores in the UK. Over the years they had taken over many shops such as many of the Alders stores. In the last few years Debenhams had become very outdated. Their products were not good value. And the concept of a department store has become old fashioned and not profitable. Retail has declined in the UK due to coopetition from Amazon. The remaining retail demand has moved to large retail park shops. Retail parks have very ugly shops that look horrid, but are much better for choice. The shops are so big that there is more range to chose from. While in an old fashioned department store, despite the store being big, as they try to sell everything there is not much choice on any type of product. Then coronavirus came which accelerated the retail decline and Debenhams didn't have enough funds to get through the shutdown of the pandemic. Debenhams went bankrupt in November 2020.
YEEEE
Love your videos your a legend at this 💯👍
22:20 Broken / smashed miele washers and abandoned miele tumble dryer.
Why would you have a washer and a dryer in debenhams?
To wash staff uniforms I’m guessing
@@patricksifmas Looks like they left a brick in the clothes
@@lucasthings BAHAHAHHAAHA
Such a waste -- beautiful machines. Would probably still work too after some encouragement.
Who pays for the electric bill a shop going bust? Were the lights already on when you came? Great video, thanks for making :)
It's very common for the services to be retained when a building is between leaseholders. It is considered a very trivial cost in the bigger scheme of things.
@@TonyLing you can tell I am a dad and a grandad worrying about costs of energy :p
6:17 oooh! Carters of Burnley Minimite siren! :)
Those modifications are an example of how people can be conned by good salespeople. You should only ever or upgrade something if it has deficiencies in its design or operation or if it's built out of parts that cannot be obtained, easily fabricated, or subsituted. Adding random components to an old design and calling it "job done" is just stupid. From what I have seen of older lifts is that every part could be replaced with a new part or something could be fabricated as a substitute. For example, take the doors, just replace every bearing (I doubt lift manufactures ever made bearings), and fill other worn parts with weld and grind them down.. far easier and better than taking something else and attempting to make it fit.
Re: Employee of the month: someone should put Spongebob's face up there lol
Ben why do some Kone lifts have the LCE as a square board instead of a vertical rectangle board? I mean what is the difference?
The vertical rectangle board is actually the repeater board, not the main logic. It relays commands and output to the actual LCE in the shaft.
@@TheDragonFire123 i was a crap little shit back then now i know but thanks 👍 i even accessed a logic cabinet.
Debenhams - looks like it's the UK equivalent to Sears Canada. Very similar store fixtures and gloomy and dated interior.
Epic video Beno! Nice lifts and nice fan sounds! Are they do do with the air balance? I don’t know much about it just what I learnt from HVAC videos.
3:06 did anyone else here an ecodisc saying "going down!"
wheres the video where those people broke into the abandoned building beno was in and beno was sleeping there
20:10 that literally sounds like a train taking off lol
Sounds like the Central Line or a PEP
2:02 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s a shame they cover up those door windows, they’re in use on the transport networks. It’s disappointing spend money to do that when they should have kept them like so many other places. If it was the 1960s one they might have used the control panel key.
But was it a 5 or 15 amp socket?
Why do some of these still photo give me familiar vibes at 0:14
Liminal space!!! I guess
Interesting stuff
Aklu Plaza (A Bangladesh Shopping Centre) Is Moving Into The Romford Debenhams Store. I Wonder What Will Happen The Otis 2000s There!
Hopefully they'll stay. 6 (including the market) shopping centres is way to much though!
@@EEverything360 Yeah, Most Towns In England Normally Have 1 Or 2 Shopping Centres, Not Damn 6!
Love the Variac on top of lift. Is this a Bodge-Up to slow something down ?
Xpnt isn’t here?
Spotted his comment after reading this one.
Debenhams Closed Down
What is the car panel
It is the panel with the indicator in the buttons that control the lift
Glad your question got answered after two years
any idea they went bankrupt? awesome video though!
They had losses even before the Pandemic and they just couldn't cope in it colause of lockdown. Its now taken over by boohoo
You should have started ALL the escalators. It's all about escalators :D
Lol at turning loads of fans on😁
2:20 I found it funny seeing the dummy on the escalator Im not being mean it is a dummy
The 2nd lift is a Kone Delta Mod
The second lift is a Kone LCE mod
@@benolifts It looks Similar/almost same
@@benolifts LCE 1st generation
Anyone here remember BHS
Yes and Woolworths
And Co-Op department store. They were epic. Nice old Pickerings lifts. All the furniture in my house is from Co-op department store and is 20 years old and still is great condition.
Yes I do. :)
I live in Wigan @beno will you come to Wigan for a lift adventure
But do the old Otis lifts still survive. We’ll probably not
I thought this one wasn’t accessible due to your previous failed attempt
A lot skaters do not like running in there non preffered direction.
Why do the HVAC fans sound like that?
Yea to to the other one was condemned due to the building lift shaft is tilting
Hey Austin this is guys
Hey guys this is Austin
Hey guys this is Austin Otis lifts
Hey Patrick this is guys and today we are going to lift a surf
2:05 LOL
20:01 Time to turn on all the fans
Debenhams just got bankrupt like BHS
Please go back and jailbreak the first lift and ride iT!
He can’t because the car panel (COP) is not detected by the controller. Even if you jailbreak it, it will still not work.
I swear I saw an Asbestos Label- rather concerning
Yep. I spotted them on the vid in two locations. On the outer doors in the first lift shaft and one on the big air handling units.
Lol 20:53-21:00 😛
4th
Shame they went bankrupt