Thursday 9 July 2009

HSBC bank, manchester. june 09

What an explore! this place is great, its an old bank in the centre of manchester, its still got a safe deposit room as you will see later. we where not the first to visit here that was done a few days before by a few friends of mine! visited with Over, Gimbulate, Gims cousin and andyj. and thanks to Over for original finding this site! ;)



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main lobby
from behind the desk
the safe door to the safe deposit boxes! we went here first!
as you can imagine the feeling when you walk in on this! :) very shiny!
sadly they are all empty! :(
this was one of the rooms below the safe deposit box room, think it was unused like much of the building!
looking up the centre of the building, it was like this from the 3rd floor up!
me having a moment on the 2nd from top floor!
steel work on the stairs from the days of midland bank, long before it was HSBC
looking off the roof!
manchester wheel and arndale centre
looking down at all the open windows!

and yes that is Over absailing down the centre of the building!! and its andyj having a go below!


:)

5 comments:

onetwotwofour said...

awesome, this is documented very well.

Chris said...

Just found your site whilst searching for "safety deposit boxes manchester" - I've never heard of Urban Exploration before and I found your site fascinating! I live in Manchester and it's great to see these places.

Good work!

scrappy said...

thanks guys glad you liked the pics!

Wisdom said...

Fantastic photography scrappy, the interior shots of the deposit boxes look bang tidy!

I'm an architecture student at manchester university and sites of urban decay really interest me. I'd be intrigued to find out how exactly you gain access to these places :-D

... or does the real fun come in working that out for yourself??

scrappy said...

access was really easy! and it was a great place to see! i would say more but others can read it here! ;)