The explore
This was a fun one for sure. After doing a bit of research on sites in Edinburgh I set off, this being the only one I could get into. I was surprised by the fact nobody had explored it before considering it was a pretty big one and had been lying empty for a while. It was an absolute maze inside and it took me a while to figure out how things were laid out. While a lot of it had been stripped out, it still retained a lot of its machinery, systems, electrical equipment and the likes. At one point I believe there was somebody inside the building with me but I doubt we were going to bump into each other in that maze anyway.
History
The building was constructed in 1968, with a later extension built in 1978. It primarily served as a call centre for Lloyds Bank however I believe it had other uses as well due to some of the more hardcore security features on the site. It had become under-used towards the end of its life and finally became vacated in 2018. I reckon it had been barely used since the mid-2000s based on the furniture and age of equipment I saw at the time. There is now a developer keen on purchasing the site and converting it to apartments.
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I've taken some foul shits but none ever this bad!This was a fun one for sure. After doing a bit of research on sites in Edinburgh I set off, this being the only one I could get into. I was surprised by the fact nobody had explored it before considering it was a pretty big one and had been lying empty for a while. It was an absolute maze inside and it took me a while to figure out how things were laid out. While a lot of it had been stripped out, it still retained a lot of its machinery, systems, electrical equipment and the likes. At one point I believe there was somebody inside the building with me but I doubt we were going to bump into each other in that maze anyway.
History
The building was constructed in 1968, with a later extension built in 1978. It primarily served as a call centre for Lloyds Bank however I believe it had other uses as well due to some of the more hardcore security features on the site. It had become under-used towards the end of its life and finally became vacated in 2018. I reckon it had been barely used since the mid-2000s based on the furniture and age of equipment I saw at the time. There is now a developer keen on purchasing the site and converting it to apartments.
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