Derby, princes store,july 08

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Drama Queen

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We paid a visit to an old workplace of mine which closed down in 2005 and awaits redevelopment.The team consisted of Myself,Johno23 and Timewarp.It is a former supermarket which has been known locally as"PRINCES"for many years.In latter years until it closed it just sold mainly clearance lines of food,toys,fancy goods etc.The buildings are currently in the first stages of demolition and are being stripped of recyclables and asbestos.Usual asbestos caution advised:exclaim::exclaim:

The site is earmarked for regeneration and the £16 million plans include 40,000 sq ft of office space,17,000sq ft of retail area,restaurants,cafe bars and 25 eco friendly homes with roof gardens and will be approx 4 storeys in height.It is to be called Sadler Square following the results of a public competiition.Anyway here are some pictures of the current site.
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Front View.
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Large old storage shed at rear.
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General rear yard area.
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Side view of buildings.
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Interior view of large storage shed,
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Main warehouse of shop,c/w asbestos removers equipment&caravan:exclaim:
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Clean area on main shopfloor area,I have mopped that a few times:lol::)
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Area towards tills/front of shop.
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Retired drinks cooler,I have filled this many a time.:)
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Close up of till area and customer doors.
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I thought they only had ACME things in cartoons:lol::lol::mrgreen:
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Contractors stash of reclaimed metal.
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Derelictions eye view on old Derby.
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View from upper floor onto street area.
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Boss`s office.
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Staff telly,right outside the boss`s office,I never did see it switched on:lol::mrgreen:
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Fridge engine for chiller,boy did that bloody thing make a racket:exclaim:
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Reclaimed/stripped out timber collection.
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General wide area view of upper floor.
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Obligatory random chair shot in silly pose:lol:.
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Loading bay and substation.
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Boilerhouse chimney against old Derby backdrop.
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Retired and abandoned forklift truck.
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Weird old oven thing:lol::exclaim:
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Name plate on electric hand dryer.
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Heath Robinson roof repair with wire basket etc.omg!!
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moody old window shot.
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They made sure the staff coudnt get out:lol::)
 
Nice one...Me and Thompski went here this morning but as my pics are almost identicle to yours i won`t bother posting them...


Good pics.
 
Yeah mine are pretty much the same, though I do love the lighting inside there :)

Nice little mooch, but not the most exciting place...


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A pleasant amble around the place ably guided by Drama Queen as she used to work there,been in the shop many times myself over the years.I cant believe they have just abandoned that forklift truck though.:)
 
Hey! =]

Orangeacid and I went around there a few hours ago and its getting pretty flooded due to a broken toilet.

But it was kinda of what made it interesting.

Did you see that squished pigeon..? yuk =p
 
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I wasn't really expecting to like this explore... :lol: ...but the old brickwork in the back part of the building is great...and especially like the chimney. Love that photo of the window with the metal amassed outside it, Drama. :)
 
Detail of Prince's store, derby, July 2008

Natalion and I followed in the steps of Drama Queen, Saigon and Thompski to bring you this report of little details of the site :)

Name the famous Cartier-Bresson photo :p
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some keys:
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And finally some officey stuff. The recipits were interesting to read, and there was a manual for the till system that I'm reading in one of the pics I guess natalion will post.
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I guess natalions photos will be up between tonight and a day or two?
 
Some nice artsy shots from you as always Orangeacid, love it :) What's with the graininess?
 
A pleasant amble around the place ably guided by Drama Queen as she used to work there,been in the shop many times myself over the years.I cant believe they have just abandoned that forklift truck though.:)

Me neither, surely that could be sold?

I went there earlier and it was strange, the site looks active and a broken toilet had flooded and it sounded like workmen were doing the pots or something, it was eerie.

Great explore anyway, glad you managed to do such a thorough explore.
 
Some nice artsy shots from you as always Orangeacid, love it :) What's with the graininess?

Ty :) It's called not having a tripod and having to underexpose at ISO 3200 and then push even further in lightroom.

To the admins - sorry if posting that in a different thread was the wrong thing to do, I read the rules and it sounded like each separate explore date should have its own thread. My bad, now I know for next time :)
 
Here are some of the photos taken today with Orangeacid:

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Probably not the best photograph to start with as Orangeacids is very similar...

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Taken in what we believed to be the room where the camera screens used to be.

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Reading the till manual and on an old phone found in that room.
 
Doing a bit of research on the North East Midland Photographic Record it was known as Allsops in 1970, here is a photo of the place from 1975 - it looks to me like it was a garage and has a sheltered forecourt (most likely glazed in later on to become the supermarket). This sounds about right considering the warehouse type buildings to the rear.

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Yes you are correct it was a garage in the 60`s and early 70`s.Well done Thompski for finding that colour photo,its mint:exclaim::).I have some in my archives but they are grainy black&white 60`s shots from when they strengthened the culvert and Sadler gate bridge and had the road up.

Interesting angle on the place with it going from a garage to a supermarket:exclaim::)
 
Yes you are correct it was a garage in the 60`s and early 70`s.Well done Thompski for finding that colour photo,its mint:exclaim::).I have some in my archives but they are grainy black&white 60`s shots from when they strengthened the culvert and Sadler gate bridge and had the road up.

Interesting angle on the place with it going from a garage to a supermarket:exclaim::)

I always thought the place looked like a car garage, well i was assuming those windows werent just for my friends and i too see what we looked like each saturday morning =]

Is a weird thing though to go from garage to cheap shop selling random things
 
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I remember this being a garage known as Bristol Street Motors in the late 70's/early 80's, selling Datsuns!

My dad bought a new Datsun Cherry from there in 1980.....

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Another nice local one ticked off, as usual it didn't take long before a fire was started in it!

Good pics boys and girls
 

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