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Report - County Hall, London - May 2015

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Adders

living in a cold world
Regular User
County Hall is an absolute mess of a building on the South Bank, London. Building started in 1911 and took 11 years until it first opened as the headquarters for the LCC (London County Council), and later the GLC (Greater London Council, not the Welsh rap group unfortunately)

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It's been continually built on and is now made up of several blocks, all of different shapes and sizes, and houses two hotels, an aquarium, the new London Dungeons, several restaurants, some flats and the London Eye experience.

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Navigating the rooftop was a joke, involving infinite amounts of ladders, scaffold rigs, staircases and dodgy pipe shimmies to get to the curved crescent-like feature at the front of the building. Definitely worth it, but felt like more of a workout than we were anticipating.

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We'd been out and about looking at some other places, and decided to check this place out on a whim as Gabe had spotted scaff going up. We approached it around 2am and didn't get back down until around 5ish just as dawn was cracking. Popped open a cheeky breakfast can and headed home for a couple hours shut eye before work.

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It's fairly close to the London Eye. A bit too close in fact, and even the fisheye struggled to capture it from up close, but the views over towards HoPa and the rest of Southwark were pretty nice. Not a huge building but it goes to show how much location counts more than height.

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And ironically, despite the prime location and impressive(ish) design the majority of the building lies empty, including two entire floors. The original Council debating chamber from the LCC and GLC days are still locked away inside somewhere, but we didn't even attempt to access it, knowing that it's located on the ground floor right in the heart of the building. It's still used for filming purposes, and you can apparently hire it out. Fairly sure this is it below us in the octagonal building.

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Anyway, a good building to tick off the list, and an enjoyable night out once again. Cheers Gabe.

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Seffy

O high
Staff member
Moderator
Very good that mate. Being that close to the eye is pretty banging alone!
 

Adders

living in a cold world
Regular User
It was already late! And I envisioned it being another 5am night, which it was. Nailed it though.
 

sirjonnyp

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Nice, did someone say to get this done now (as in two weeks ago), or is it too late?
 

Adders

living in a cold world
Regular User
Yeah we were pretty persistent in telling you all about it! It could potentially be do able, depends how far they've got with the hoarding.
 

Gabe

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
The hoarding is complete and high, but I was the raw the other night before something else local, he found another way... If he remembers im not sure...

As for telling people to get up it, I tried, I really tried telling everyone, lads will be lads
 

Ojay

Admin
Staff member
Admin
Looks like still worth a look, despite the faff of navigating the gaff
 

Adders

living in a cold world
Regular User
Yeah I'd say it's definitely the best rooftop we've had for a while in my opinion.
 
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