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After a day of experiencing every possible type of fail...

Site 1. Busted by security.
Site 2. Building demolished.
Site 3. Building locked down to buggery.

...Phobot suggested this place. Bit of strange one as I can't find bugger all about it except to say it was once used by the RBS and now looks well of the way to demo. If anyone wants to fill in the blanks then please do. Also odd no one has reported it before, it being smack bang in the middle of LO.

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Best one last ;-)
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It was actually a Natwest building, part of which was used by RBS. Me and dave and a load of others hit this place up november last year on our way to the desp piss up... Doesn't seem to have changed much since tbh. Got a few pics on the site, not my best ones, for some reason, my ISO was waayyyy up... check out the link.

http://www.mc-nebula.com/urbex/high/rbs_hq/
 
I wonder whether this closed a while back, or if it's a post-Fred Goodwin cost saving measure? Always interesting to see concrete slabs being ripped apart, looks very "visceral". :)
 
Best guess all the shit is dropped through it when demo starts on the floors above. It's a shame we didn't see this when we was in the building as a shot looking down it would have been far more impressive.
 
Found some info...

Goodmans Fields was a large, low red-brick complex built in the late 1970s as a computer centre, interbank cheque clearing centre and IT development centre for National Westminster Bank. The name relates to a nearby area dating back to Elizabethan times. In the mid 1980s an extension was built on the west of the site, replacing a small parade of shops/offices at the southeast corner. In the early 1990s the mainframe computers were removed. In 2000 NatWest was taken over by Royal Bank of Scotland. In 2006, development started on part of the site to create Berkeley Homes' City Quarter. Remaining RBS operations are likely to move to nearby buildings during 2007.
 
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Goodmans Fields

Els said:
Found some info...

Goodmans Fields was a large, low red-brick complex built in the late 1970s as a computer centre, interbank cheque clearing centre and IT development centre for National Westminster Bank. The name relates to a nearby area dating back to Elizabethan times. In the mid 1980s an extension was built on the west of the site, replacing a small parade of shops/offices at the southeast corner. In the early 1990s the mainframe computers were removed. In 2000 NatWest was taken over by Royal Bank of Scotland. In 2006, development started on part of the site to create Berkeley Homes' City Quarter. Remaining RBS operations are likely to move to nearby buildings during 2007.
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I "accidently" went in there once. I was going to a course at a nearby RBS building and went there by mistake. They directed me to a room on an upper floor. It was only when the meeting started that I realised I was in the wrong place! Great security!:lol:
 

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