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Report - Manchester Cathedral Steps - 25/07/07

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Oxygen Thief

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Same place - different name.

This place...

Victoria Arches - Wikipedia

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The layout of this place can be summarised by a number of arched rooms all leading back to a long corridor. Generally, all rooms are accessible from the corridor.

There's a lot of pictures, please be patient...

Corridor shot, including 'the' sign...

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On another internal wall, near the river...

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Now this might look like a pile of rotting timber (because it is)....

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...but there's a good possibility that it's the remains of an external fixture, like one of these...

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Collapsed aircon, on a pile of rubble....

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Most of the rooms had this rubble, earth and old household waste in them, it had been transported in there, rather than being dropped in through the surface, or a collapse.

more...

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Direction signs painted on the walls...

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Weird aircon and an internal whitewashed wall...

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more...

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A pair of double doors that would have led to the river...

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Steps to the corridor...

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Some type of secure storage in its day...

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Looking up to the corridor...

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The medical room entrance...

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The corridor...

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At this point, the corridor widened a lot...

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The windowed entrance to the gents toilets...

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Looking down...

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Old signage...

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In the toilet attendants room...

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more than likely it's the window and hole on the left here...

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The gents toilets...

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The toilet steps and ancillary rooms...

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The aircon room...

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An arched room...

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Finally, a shot of the arches, the toilet attendants window is on the right.

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Oxygen Thief

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Re: Manchester Cathedral Steps - 25/07/07 - REPORT

And just where do those windows lead too?? They imply that they must have been a source of fresh air at some point, maybe in the bottom of some kind of pit or well space; I'm assuming that the pit/well is now capped?

The windows are at the higher level (the corridor level). The gents toilets are on a lower level down some steps. Underneath these windows are a couple of 'utility' rooms...

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