PART 5 - The Office Car Park
In the 1990s my previous company had a customer in Bracknell with an old otis lift in a multistorey car park next door.
This was back in 1996 and I only went there once, but I remember the lift.
I thought that the place had been knocked down. I tried to do some research on the car park on the net but found nothing.
Then, of course... AFTER my filming I realised that this must have been the lift!
I didn't recognise it was more open in the 90s without security doors and the office was just a walkway from the car park with no doors.
POSSIBLY the machinery is original, especially the distinctive sound of an Otis DC-Generator, though much quieter than before.
Even though it has the dreaded black modernised buttons, still an interesting lift with it's unusually high speed and original Otis doors.
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Bracknell has special memories for me...
My nan and granddad lived here and over my childhood I got to know Bracknell quite well. I first realised that I had an interest in lifts from when my Nan would take me round the lifts in the town centre. Secretly I was scared of the lifts, but there was something about them that I liked which developed into an interest.
Sadly my nan passed away last Christmas (2013). She was a kind lady that treated everyone the same and never judged anyone.
Something else about Bracknell is, until now, things haven't changed much and some of the lifts that I remember are still there! But "here today, gone tomorrow" is a realistic proverb in this video - Bracknell is being massively redeveloped and is finally moving away from it's 1970s town centre design which inevitably takes away my memories of the town centre as I knew it.
SO...ONE LAST TIME, this time with some supporting documents (and possibly with some "too much information" parts lol), lets do the BRACKNELL LIFT TOUR ONE LAST TIME...!
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