Exploring Manchester's Abandoned Laboratories: 1960s University Time Warp

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In this episode, we are taking a look inside the abandoned Faraday Building, which was formerly the Chemistry Department for the University of Manchester. The Brutalist tower contains countless labs, each from different eras, but all offering stunning decay and working electricity.
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@DWatso Год назад

You are the UK's "Proper People", and in this game, I don't think I could pay a higher compliment, great work.

@tidysampler585 Год назад

I 2nd this one. Definitely the UK’s “Proper People”.

@janicecopeland9083 Год назад

100% lol

@jpeg42069 Год назад

I’ve been thinking the same!!

@shedmanx3640 Год назад

Personally I think they are better than “Proper People”. Although Proper People visit interesting locations, I find them bland and boring.

@charlie_mclean Год назад

Yes couldn’t agree more, excellent as always

@richardholmes3932 11 месяцев назад

Just a point of order, the Faraday Building was part of the UMIST campus, and became part of the University of Manchester in 2004 with the merger. This building was occupied by the UMIST Chemistry Department and the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science. It’s former occupants are very touchy about being referred to as UoM, etc.

@adammcardle 3 месяца назад

Haha, 20 years on and I'm still salty about the "merger", from a former UMIST computing student

@JackieStevens-cp8xu 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the memories - I did my PhD in this building between 1999 and 2003. Spent quite a bit of time on that top floor too, although never made it onto the roof!

@susanick 5 месяцев назад

I feel u man, even i wanst been this building ever but i shared the similar story with the Holling building (Toast rack) in Fallowfield Manchster, where i spent 4yrs of Bsc courses, chilling time at the canteen still memoriable, it's unique archtature is time resisting

@frasermathers2287 Год назад

Once again lads you have excelled yourselves with this explore! As one of your older followers I have to say I felt right at home on those older labs which reminded me of the 60s labs at school. Some of the decay is like art work and it helps tell the story in its own way. Thanks for all your hard work and I have to say that the commitment, quality and presentation of all explores coupled with your videos, for me makes Urbandoned the leading Urbex channel.

@BenLuis732 Год назад

Love this. So true 🤜🏻

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Much appreciated as always mate! Glad we could help you reminisce :)

@jesswright8279 Год назад

Made me wonder what they might have learnt, discovered and created here and that somewhere in the world some people will have memories of learning something special in these labs for the first time that would have gone to inspire many careers and perhaps created something to save someone’s life for the first time because of the work they did here as their foundation.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, very true and something I didn't think about! People's careers and major life decisions would have definitely been formed in these very rooms

@PadraiginS 11 месяцев назад

@@Urbandoned I learned new things in that building and it changed my life and career! I was so sad seeing it decaying when it was full of life and happy people. It got creepy after Chemistry moved out and DIAS on the 3 floors at the bottom were rattling around in an empty building. At night the doors used to flap and rattle in the draughts and we thought there were intruders. I called security a few times!

@richardholmes3932 11 месяцев назад

I did my PhD in the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science between 1997 and 2001. Had an office in the now demolished UG Block, and labs opposite the B-floor coffee room.

@ChrisHandley_dr_ether 11 месяцев назад

I studied my degree and PhD between 2001-2009 and almost up to the end of my chemistry Phd the building was mostly in operation. So even though some labs look old, they were in use.

@chrismcnulty957 Год назад

At 13 minutes looks like the lab I was in in 1984! my bench was in the corner overlooking the Mancunian Way - a lifetime ago.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

That must be fascinating to see, hope you enjoyed the feature

@LiftFan Год назад

Love how well preserved some of that is, people tend to shit on the 60s buildings but when it's been untouched it actually does look good! I wish buildings nowadays would have a higher priority for using natural light instead of newer buildings with tiny windows and barely any natural light.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Agreed, the brutalist style is hated, but we tend to find the interior looks a lot nicer than the facade, especially compared to modern buildings of today

@LiftFan 11 месяцев назад

@@Urbandoned the facades looked good when you see them new, it’s just the mixture of those horrible UPVC windows that get fitted and the lack of exterior maintenance and cleaning that makes it look so run down these days.

@thisperson5294 6 месяцев назад

One day, the way we treat 1960s building will be viewed as horrific - just as we view the way Victorian buildings were treated in the 1960s. I wish they would do HMSO in Norwich and Anglia Square, before it vanishes.

@TheWongAndOnly910 Год назад

As a chemist who studied at Manchester (the new building, not this one), always interesting seeing old labs in the buildings. Stuff like how basic the emergency shower is, the absolute abundance of gas taps, all fume hoods made of wood.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

It must be interesting seeing how safety precautions have increased from then to now

@domsa_ Год назад

Enjoyed this one as a University of Manchester physics graduate. I never went in this building, although I did have exams at some of the neighbouring UMIST buildings-UMIST joined the Victoria University of Manchester to form the University of Manchester in 2004. The Sackville Street Building is probably the most impressive building on the old UMIST campus.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

We would recommend returning to the channel in a few years with your relationship with Uni Of ;)

@BenLuis732 Год назад

You, my friends, are absolutely amazing. Even your videos are so professional. I did sign up to the premium but could only do for a month as things are tight at home. I felt like you all deserved the extra cash boost. Please keep providing us with honest and genuine things to watch.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

No problem at all! Just your support through watching our videos is enough for us! Thank you very much for the kind words and we will continue to provide, of course :)

@kpurban1310 Год назад

For what is essentially a concrete tower block you've made something quite special out of this. Really nice.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Thanks buddy

@ametrinemoon Год назад

At the sinks, they were for drying glassware. I have used labs with wood before. I am amazed the lights for the fumehood are still on.

@OLIFAB Год назад

Fantastic explore as always! This place is amazing! 😊

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Thank you as always sir

@janicecopeland9083 Год назад

Well done, thanks for sharing!

@LeslieGilpinRailways 10 месяцев назад

Some of those labs and even the lecture theatre at the start looked like when I was there 76-79. Hardly changed!

@paulmcnally Год назад

Really enjoyed this boys. Thanks.

@GPOTOM Год назад

I had the theme tune from “Look Around You” playing in my head through most of this video.

@nickbenke3306 5 месяцев назад

It resembles the Hollins building (Toast Rack) before it was stripped out! There are so many hidden gems in this city; One day I went through a loft hatch of a city centre pub to find an aerial feed! I found one - I also found another few floors above it and discovered that it had been a Victorian brothel! It makes you wonder what else is right under our noses! Great job on capturing this building! Bravo!

@judithsmith9274 Год назад

Absolutely fantastic explore. Thanks for sharing 😊

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

No problem

@bobbythomas200420032 Год назад

Hi guys another excellent video and I really enjoyed it so much. What a cool looking building the science labs and the decay is just so awesome. The commentary was excellent and thanks for making the video.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Definitely a Sc-fi factor inside

@michelle.lima5 Год назад

Really enjoyed that, some of those labs reminded me of my school chemistry labs from back in the 80’s and the school was old then

@DEAD-DROP Год назад

So rare to find places like this in such good condition, some amazing features you found! Really great work once again guys!

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Yeah totally, that's what made this one feel so special. Thank you

@johorrocks8927 Год назад

Great explore, love how this has stood still and only shows natural decay, the stills at the end were brilliant. Hope it stands tall for many more years to come around the ever changing face of my home town. Getting near to 100,000 subs 👍👍👍

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed this one - yeah not too far off ;)

@trudystocks3885 Год назад

You guys are simply the best at what you all explore, the details you film and the way you explain....you guys are unbeatable...❤

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Means a lot!

@aj478 Год назад

Always drove past this and wondered about how it looks inside! Great upload👌

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Glad we could reduce your curiosity

@harrisonhealey1679 Год назад

Wow, this video was absolutely thrilling! I've always had a fascination with lifts and exploring abandoned buildings, so this was a perfect blend for me. The eerie atmosphere and hidden mysteries kept me hooked from start to finish. Next time you venture into another abandoned building, I would be over the moon if you could focus a bit more on the lifts and maybe even give us a glimpse into the lift motor room! It's such a unique and intriguing aspect that often goes unnoticed. Keep up the amazing work, and I'll be eagerly waiting for your next adventure. Lift enthusiasts like myself can't get enough of this kind of content! 🏢🔍🛗

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

I will ensure we spare a thought for the lifts and motor rooms from now on!

@ThemeParksAndAttractions Год назад

Wow this looks great 👍 nice find!

@deanothemanc5281 Год назад

Great stuff, part of the old UMIST site. 👏

@kareng9081 Год назад

💝 Beautifully preserved. Very cool ! Thanks for the video. 🤗 🙂👍

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

You are very welcome

@michailokeefeMooMoo Год назад

Another great place and video

@gigteevee6118 Год назад

Amazing explore, the storeroom was definitely the highlight…along with the roof view, nice work!

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Agreed, we didn't expect to find so much up there, as it tends to be left in the basement

@davidn3394 Год назад

Wow thank you.

@SteveHit1 7 месяцев назад

I did my PhD and post doc there - PhD 1977-80 The organic chemistry research school was almost entirely organofluorine chemistry, and a lot of money was brought into the department for this, much of it by the head of department Prof Haszeldine. My research lab was F102, which, by the look of the footage was refurbished. I did my PhD under Eric Banks who was a brilliant supervisor. The large lab at the top, with fume cupboards along both sides, was the obnoxious processes lab, where reactions involving the most toxic chemicals were performed. I used it once to prepare perfluoroisobutene, a gas with a tenth of the toxicity of the nerve gas Sarin ! Had a fabulous time there and in Manchester as a whole. Sad to see the building in decay - such a waste.

@chrisdoney8578 Год назад

What a waste. Such a shame. Great explore and vid. Thanks for sharing as always lads 👍

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

No problem, glad you found interest in it

@davidrobinson9012 11 месяцев назад

I’d love to see films of MSS and Reynolds buildings.

@hdmediaprouk Год назад

The screen you asked about at 30:12 is a DEC VT340 dumb terminal. It connects to a central server using serial communications and is essentially just a text display and input unit, all processing is done on the central computer, which would be something like a VAX or DEC Alpha (or one of their many competitors) running a multi-user operating system like VMS or Unix during that time period. You could run hundreds of terminals off one computer no problem.

@ihardcas Год назад

The VT340 certainly pre-dates Alpha. If you at 29:56, you'll see a computer on a shelf. That's either a PDP11/53 (or /73) or a MicroVAX II processor. That's likely what the VT340 was attached to. If it was that computer, you could maybe manage 6-12 terminals depending what was running. Not hundreds.

@hdmediaprouk Год назад

@@ihardcasTrue, I was aware of the various dates, but you never know what got updated when. A place I worked at were running Wyse VT100 clones well into the late 90s on a Data General DG/UX system. I did wonder about the machine in the rack but couldn’t quite see it well enough. Good spot on the shelf there, I hadn’t noticed that!

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

@@hdmediaprouk Thank you both for this - as you can tell, we had no idea what it was!

@FrostyGaming8394 Год назад

Hi Alistair how are you doing mate? Amazing video as always well edited with perfect background music to go with the dark scenes real shame that this large lab is no longer open from the outside it looks a lot like a block of flats or a office block they definitely have had people come into the building to take all of the valuables out of all the floors just leaving the not so valuable stuff being kept like tables and chairs hopefully this place gets replaced with something the same or better as this is a big land they could open something else on for the age of the place its expected that decaying will start to happen from all the old paint anyways i hope that your having a good day so far Alistair and keep up the great content as always on the channel 👍

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

All good as always! Glad you liked the episode and appreciate the music used. You're probably right, thieves have definitely entered the structure over the many years it has lied disused

@FrostyGaming8394 11 месяцев назад

@@Urbandoned Good to hear your doing good like I am yep that’s definitely true about thieves entering the building to use a few rooms into cannabis farms hope your having a good evening so far Alistar 👍

@rogermolineux9741 Год назад

Largely intact and smooth inside, so hope a useful and fitting repurpose can be found.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Yes, it is likely, but the brutalist style could also be demolished for a building that people enjoy more

@stomlinson32ify Год назад

Hidden in plain sight. Nice one 👍

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

The definition of it

@urban_fox_cub_urbex 11 месяцев назад

Bloody hell this is still doable! been 3 years since i was here last

@MS-Patriot2 Год назад

Fabulous. I wish you could record and transmit the smell of that building. Chem labs. always had a great aroma. From a time when education required you to find out by doing.

@jpeg42069 Год назад

Really? Can you describe what it smells like? I’ve never been in one before and I am so curious

@MS-Patriot2 Год назад

@@jpeg42069 kind of woody, methane, vinegar and pear drops.

@alastairjones0 Год назад

The science lab at my secondary school looked like that in the mid / late 90s

@daffyduk77 Год назад

supercool !

@user-se6rv5rr6i Год назад

COOL! Next, find Rutherford's desk. Do wear a dosemeter while you at it.

@malcolmhutchison Год назад

in the storage room near the top looks like it has a DEC vt320 terminal, an Apple Macintish II among its bits

@tsimeone 11 месяцев назад

Love the ass club hoody by the way. Great explore. Always wondered what was in there.

@christineburns5246 Год назад

The lecture theatre furniture is completely typical for builds at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s. The projector room was for a Kodak style carousel projector. I.e. No indication the place had been refurbed since it was built. I used to walk past it every day from 1972-74. The main access was from a building across the road and a bridge. The other building was demolished for the newly built graphene building and I dare say this will be taken down when the university decides it needs the space.

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the informative comment :)

@iO-Sci Год назад

Serene but a abandoned library it's serene 🔭 조용하지만 막다른 길

@5impleSteph Год назад

I’m so confused how these buildings are just left to rot, like it’s surely prime real estate weather it’s turned into something else or demolished to make way for something else Really cool though

@JoolsUK 11 месяцев назад

Universities have acquired bucket loads of cash and have invested heavily in building work all across the UK last 20 years. Likely they can afford not to need to sell quickly or at all.

@islasandjessicas Год назад

The antique dealer Drew Pritchard would love to get his hands on the some of the furniture in there...

@tamarahenderson5241 Год назад

Love

@TorDrums Год назад

Scrolling the comments for people who studied here!

@kateallica Год назад

Funny how you mentioned there were no chairs - my husband used to work for UoM & spent a week emptying that building of all chairs 😅

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

That clears it up, it felt bizarre that there wasn't even one in the many floors!

@ianwraith3251 Год назад

Cracking 'proper' 60s labs those and if cared for properly they would last almost forever as opposed to what generally replaces them which looks shiny and modern but needs a full refurb after 10 years. The main problem with buildings such as these though is the electrical supply not being able to cope with having computers everywhere and asbestos in everything that doesn't move. Sadly many Uni science departments don't have the money coming in that some engineering departments do so keep using increasingly elderly labs built in the glory days of British science.

@mistervacation23 Год назад

In Dexter's Laboratory !!

@ManCalledMif 11 месяцев назад

19:18 spot my lab 😂😂😂😂😂

@brianthesnail3815 Год назад

The question is - WHY? Why does a university not use a building like that and leave it abandoned. Universities are always short of funds.

@user-se6rv5rr6i Год назад

This is a UMIST building. When the Victoria and UMIST merged in 2004, the university mostly retreated to Victoria's Oxford street campus and left the UMIST campus to the ladies working near Piccadilly station (and their clients).

@tenace10a 11 месяцев назад

probably not enough cash available to remove all the asbestos and knock it down - check out the current demolition of the chemistry building at Bangor.... costing a fortune

@laurelgreentriumph Год назад

I always wonder who's paying the leccy bill in these abandoned buildings where the power is on.

@joanneneaves9651 Год назад

I agree 👍

@dw1444 Год назад

i explored this place just before it was sealed off around 2008 ish did you get down the the second sub level and did you see the underground tunnel which went under the road to building which was demoed a few years later

@Urbandoned 11 месяцев назад

We did - all blocked up now!

@russellpetrie119 11 месяцев назад

make for great student accommodation

@jpeg42069 Год назад

Some of the rooms give off liminal space vibes

@Coffeewax 22 дня назад

Asbestos surely in there mate be on guard

@rogerc7960 Год назад

Uranium?

@philthymiller Год назад

Who pays the electrickery bill for this building?

@techtinkerin Год назад

Are these the ones irradiated by Marie curie? What's the half life of plutonium again.. only 20000 years!! 🤭

@brianthesnail3815 Год назад

Its OK. A half life of 20,000 years emits almost nothing on a daily basis. Probably wouldn't want to spend a week in there or walk off with it in your pocket though.

@jesswright8279 Год назад

Anyway I can’t work out why your videos are so moreish