This place only became accessible about a week ago. It's fairly close to me so I decided to go and take a look with two friends of mine.
THE HISTORY: I don't know much about the building itself, but I do know that this building used to house Portsmouth's only Kwik Save discount supermarket, I don't know when it first opened. The supermarket was closed down when the company itself went into administration and closed down roughly 80 stores in 2007, leaving the building empty. The building itself has been for sale since it became empty, but it seems that nobody has bought it, leaving it to deteriorate.
THE PLACE: The building itself is in a sorry state, the interior of the building has quite literally fallen apart, the main shopping floor is strewn with fallen ceiling tiles, insulation and plasterboard. Not to mention massive piles of the stuff in some corners of the main shop floor. The upstairs section has been ripped to shreds, with the walls holed in many different places and bags of rubbish left in the rooms. The building is structurally sound, but the inside is quite literally an empty shell, an eerie one at that considering how dark it gets at the back of the shop floor, not much light can get there since the main shop windows have been boarded over.
THE EXPLORE: It was more of an in-and-out explore than anything else. We didn't really find any surprises apart from some homeless person's sleeping bag in the stairwell and a few dead pigeons upstairs. We all felt how eerie it was on the main shop floor, especially with my crappy torch. An interesting explore, since it is local to me and I've known about it for years... But going back here is pointless after the first time.
THE PICTURES:
The front of the supermarket from the other side of the street. What an eyesore...
The courtyard? I don't know what to call this. The fences for the trolleys are still there.
The view when you walk through the door. The main shop floor is an absolute mess. Note the two double doors at the back, what's in there will be visited further down.
Looking to the left from where I came in, huge piles of crap lie around in the corners.
Looking to the right of where I came in, that container looking structure is actually a small room with some old circuit boards inside. It's part of the actual building it seems.
ON TO THE BACK ROOM!
This is the back room through the double doors at the back of the main shop floor. There appears to be some kind of Air Conditioning or refrigeration unit in front of me. Through that door is just a room full of bin bags.
One of the Air Conditioning/refrigeration units.
The view when coming out of the back room.
NOW, UPSTAIRS!
The stairwell.
At the top of the stairwell.
To the right of the stairs is a door that couldn't be seen in the previous photo, this door leads to... Well, toilets.
Main corridor, the plasterboard is destroyed. The first side door you see leads to another set of toilets, I have skipped them in this report.
Looking down on the shop floor from the corridor, I guess the missing plasterboard made for a decent shot.
First office, second door down the corridor.
Second office, third door down the corridor. This one has a whiteboard... If you could call it that with all the crap that's on it.
Third and final office at the end of the corridor, cupboard in the corner is empty. There's dead pigeons in here... It smells.
ON THE WAY OUT:
"Let's get out of here lads."
Snapped the modern board on the way out. It's in the stairwell.
Aren't laws made to be broken?
Well, there you have it guys. Hope you liked it. I plan to hopefully get a better camera at some point.
- Rainey
THE HISTORY: I don't know much about the building itself, but I do know that this building used to house Portsmouth's only Kwik Save discount supermarket, I don't know when it first opened. The supermarket was closed down when the company itself went into administration and closed down roughly 80 stores in 2007, leaving the building empty. The building itself has been for sale since it became empty, but it seems that nobody has bought it, leaving it to deteriorate.
THE PLACE: The building itself is in a sorry state, the interior of the building has quite literally fallen apart, the main shopping floor is strewn with fallen ceiling tiles, insulation and plasterboard. Not to mention massive piles of the stuff in some corners of the main shop floor. The upstairs section has been ripped to shreds, with the walls holed in many different places and bags of rubbish left in the rooms. The building is structurally sound, but the inside is quite literally an empty shell, an eerie one at that considering how dark it gets at the back of the shop floor, not much light can get there since the main shop windows have been boarded over.
THE EXPLORE: It was more of an in-and-out explore than anything else. We didn't really find any surprises apart from some homeless person's sleeping bag in the stairwell and a few dead pigeons upstairs. We all felt how eerie it was on the main shop floor, especially with my crappy torch. An interesting explore, since it is local to me and I've known about it for years... But going back here is pointless after the first time.
THE PICTURES:
The front of the supermarket from the other side of the street. What an eyesore...
The courtyard? I don't know what to call this. The fences for the trolleys are still there.
The view when you walk through the door. The main shop floor is an absolute mess. Note the two double doors at the back, what's in there will be visited further down.
Looking to the left from where I came in, huge piles of crap lie around in the corners.
Looking to the right of where I came in, that container looking structure is actually a small room with some old circuit boards inside. It's part of the actual building it seems.
ON TO THE BACK ROOM!
This is the back room through the double doors at the back of the main shop floor. There appears to be some kind of Air Conditioning or refrigeration unit in front of me. Through that door is just a room full of bin bags.
One of the Air Conditioning/refrigeration units.
The view when coming out of the back room.
NOW, UPSTAIRS!
The stairwell.
At the top of the stairwell.
To the right of the stairs is a door that couldn't be seen in the previous photo, this door leads to... Well, toilets.
Main corridor, the plasterboard is destroyed. The first side door you see leads to another set of toilets, I have skipped them in this report.
Looking down on the shop floor from the corridor, I guess the missing plasterboard made for a decent shot.
First office, second door down the corridor.
Second office, third door down the corridor. This one has a whiteboard... If you could call it that with all the crap that's on it.
Third and final office at the end of the corridor, cupboard in the corner is empty. There's dead pigeons in here... It smells.
ON THE WAY OUT:
"Let's get out of here lads."
Snapped the modern board on the way out. It's in the stairwell.
Aren't laws made to be broken?
Well, there you have it guys. Hope you liked it. I plan to hopefully get a better camera at some point.
- Rainey
