Employment Exchange, Aytoun St Manchester
"You'd better hurry up, the demo signs are up and the whole gaff is fenced off." "It's too late now", was the cry from some! After many years lying empty, Aytoun is finally getting knocked down to make way for a hotel.
It was suggested we go early doors at weekend, so as to not draw any attention to ourselves and have time for a mooch, before and if workers came on site. We needn't have worried on that score, didn't look like anyone had been inside at all. I'm a builder, you usually find that before any work is carried out, a temporary (possibly safety) brew table and chairs are installed. So, alls well, all the time in the world 'n' all that. Relax.
Our entrance was made canal side. The whole place is ripped back to to concrete/brick/plaster. Any internal stud walls are long gone
leaving it all open plan, so to speak, the ground floor particularly so.
We eventually got to the roof and naturally hung around for a while, maybe too long?
I went to the edge of the front elevation, to get a picture of the front of the courts over the road, looked down and saw a copper
crossing the road, it looked like he was eating something, so I thought he was just on his way home maybe? When i watched the video back, I hear myself informing Ojay, "Just seen a Dibble over the road eating a butty." How naive of me.
Looking over the other end of the roof and there were another two looking over the bridge at our 'transport.'
We started to make our way down, but decided not to rush, it wasn't like they could get in. We had a few sneaky peeks out of
broken windows on the way and then the banging noises started.
They were actually throwing stones at our entrance point, some of which landed in the FreshFingers vessel. We hung around on the
ground floor a while before deciding to call it a day and upon our exit, there was nobody about. Hastily, we rowed the other way in
the hope we could just dissapear and if it hadn't been for those pesky pigs having one last look over the bridge, we would've gotten
away with it.
"You could be putting my men in danger if we had to get in there and come looking for you." Yeh,yeh, they were alright to be fair,
just the Sergeant giving it a bit of 'look at me.' They could see we weren't kids and looked like we knew what we were doing??
Being an old twat is a good thing sometimes.
Found canal side:
Ojay and FreshFingers, thank you.
He just can't help himself
Our transport, safely folded up, cheers mate.
A video, you may have already seen on Ojay' s thread, with a little dialogue and different tunes
[video=youtube;PJlroQcZBpo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlroQcZBpo[/video]
Many thanks for looking
"You'd better hurry up, the demo signs are up and the whole gaff is fenced off." "It's too late now", was the cry from some! After many years lying empty, Aytoun is finally getting knocked down to make way for a hotel.
It was suggested we go early doors at weekend, so as to not draw any attention to ourselves and have time for a mooch, before and if workers came on site. We needn't have worried on that score, didn't look like anyone had been inside at all. I'm a builder, you usually find that before any work is carried out, a temporary (possibly safety) brew table and chairs are installed. So, alls well, all the time in the world 'n' all that. Relax.
Our entrance was made canal side. The whole place is ripped back to to concrete/brick/plaster. Any internal stud walls are long gone
leaving it all open plan, so to speak, the ground floor particularly so.
We eventually got to the roof and naturally hung around for a while, maybe too long?
I went to the edge of the front elevation, to get a picture of the front of the courts over the road, looked down and saw a copper
crossing the road, it looked like he was eating something, so I thought he was just on his way home maybe? When i watched the video back, I hear myself informing Ojay, "Just seen a Dibble over the road eating a butty." How naive of me.
Looking over the other end of the roof and there were another two looking over the bridge at our 'transport.'
We started to make our way down, but decided not to rush, it wasn't like they could get in. We had a few sneaky peeks out of
broken windows on the way and then the banging noises started.
They were actually throwing stones at our entrance point, some of which landed in the FreshFingers vessel. We hung around on the
ground floor a while before deciding to call it a day and upon our exit, there was nobody about. Hastily, we rowed the other way in
the hope we could just dissapear and if it hadn't been for those pesky pigs having one last look over the bridge, we would've gotten
away with it.
"You could be putting my men in danger if we had to get in there and come looking for you." Yeh,yeh, they were alright to be fair,
just the Sergeant giving it a bit of 'look at me.' They could see we weren't kids and looked like we knew what we were doing??
Being an old twat is a good thing sometimes.
Found canal side:
Ojay and FreshFingers, thank you.
He just can't help himself
Our transport, safely folded up, cheers mate.
A video, you may have already seen on Ojay' s thread, with a little dialogue and different tunes
[video=youtube;PJlroQcZBpo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlroQcZBpo[/video]
Many thanks for looking
