lifts at tescos in chatham. These lifts are breaking down every time I visit somthing else goes wrong. these are O&K lifts. See my urbex video of Chatham Tesco... • Tesco in Chatham Urban...
This reminds me of Paul Street Shopping Centre in Cork, Ireland. The lift block for the car park look very similar to the Tesco in Chatham (I know it’s no longer Tesco). In Paul Street, there are also three lifts, installed by Pickerings in the 1980s. Over the last year or two, there’s usually only two out of three lifts in operation and during last year, only one lift was working. Some local people who shop there regularly said that all three lifts were out of order and a story of elderly people and parents with buggies having to struggle up the stairs. Having no lifts working makes it impossible for people to do a shop in the Tesco on the ground floor if they want to use a trolley. It’s a popular place to go grocery shopping for people in Cork. The car park is run by Cork City Council and is one of two multi storey car parks owned and operated by them (there other multi storey car parks in Cork city centre but they are privately owned). After a long journey with only one or two lifts, they are sadly being replaced by Schindler. The first of the three lifts should be in operation in a few weeks (after nearly 6 months).
Those grills are dangerous. That actually happened to a woman in China she got out of the lift and there was a gate the lift doors shut trapping her there. It was a deserted office. Unable to get her hand through the bars to press the button she presumably starved to death.
Thanks for your response Matt. So in this Sainsburys car park, did the lifts go directly into the Sainsburys or outside? Am a bit confused about your response. Are you saying that you had to use the stairs to access the lifts or could you get to the lifts from all car park levels?
Thanks for explaining. Do you know when this happened? Out of interest, are there actually stairs in this car park? I thought they only went between the ground and first floor with the ramp going the rest of the way.
These lifts are an absolute nightmare! I used to work for this very tescos, and the trouble was the local council owns the car park and it's an on going battle to who owns the lifts (even though tescos currently maintains them) and there was going to be a contract in 2009 for the lifts to be refurbished but it never went ahead, also there's a key which can take you only to lv 6 but you had to wedge the doors open, because the button to call the lift doesn't work otherwise you'd be stuck up ther
I remember going in this lift and it stopping at the restaurant level - the doors opened to reveal a black metal door blocking our path...and we were stuck there for about an hour! They really need to be replaced!
Thanks for taking the time to upload this. I've never been in them before but have always been interested to see what they are like from the inside. Out of interest, are the top levels of the car park still open? If so do you have to reach them by the stairs or that ramp?
I hope I'm not asking a stupid question but why did they bother to replace all 3 of the lifts in light of the fact that the majority of the car park has now been closed? Or were the lifts replaced before the upper levels of the car park were shut? I'd also be interested to find out, can you access the shut car park levels from the new lifts or does it require a key?
the old ones had their logics dodgy as well as their controllers being faulty, causing the lifts to break down so they had no choice to modernize them. along to the modernization they replaced the buttons of levels 3 and 4 with key switches as pigeon poop has been spreading around these levels, and started to attract drug dealers. the ramps and stairs that go to floors above 2 have been borded off with wooden plank.
I live near Newbury and the store near me has an Orona too! It too breaks down sometimes. It has been ok recently though. Since 2012 I have not seen it break down. The Schindler escalators pose more a problem than the Orona lift...
In Ireland, Tesco stores tend to have mainly Otis Gen2's or Kleemann's. Before the 2000's, any Tesco in Ireland that had lifts were mainly part of a shopping centre car park or something, so there was no uniform model of lift they used. Tesco in Jervis Shopping Centre in Dublin (1996) has Otis lifts, Arthurs Quay (1989) in Limerick has lifts modernised by Mid Western (generic) and Paul Street in Cork (1985) has 1980s generics. Before 1997, Tesco in Ireland was originally either Quinnsworth or Crazy Prices (and Stewart's in Northern Ireland).
market floor is actually been turned into the ground floor now, go outdoors didnt occupy the inside part of tesco where they had the lifts, so where the lifts used to open in tesco, the doors have been locked shut, and when the lift is on ground floor, the lift continuously chimes on the abandoned tesco side, same thing happens with restaurant level, that level is also completely shut, the chiming happens there and you basically cant get in there unless you open the doors from on top
@ElPaso1990TX as i dont live in the UK my best guess is that there was a former restaurant above the tescos but it was closed down due to less customers or some license thingy
These lifts are not very nice.... In fact the whole entrance area to Tesco's Chatham and the car park stairs stink of urine.. This is the worst car park in Medway and has been since it opened around 1997 or 98.. It's always been used as a toilet... This Tesco's used to be one of the best stores when it opened but it's really run down now with a leaky roof and buckets all around the store on wet rainy days.
This store was built in the 1970s 2000 Car park 5 and 6 are closed 2010 2 lifts are mordenized by otis not working 2017 This shop closed down and locked off carparks 3 and 4 2021 Lester's new buttons 2022 Power went out of the building
actually these are dewhurst buttons used by majority of the generic companies like jackson. some of these generic buttons are used randomly, like the service ecodisc's (westfields london) and the otis lift that replaced one of the canary wharf station elevators (that stop at the ticket hall)
