Hi from Colchester and a question

[Talent]

Dear all,

reading this forum for a couple of months I now created an account. Although it's not a derelict building, maybe someone can help me.

I walked past this brick building without any doors/windows in Colchester several times and wonder what its purpose is. Any ideas?


www_google.com/maps/@51.9053862,0.9242791,3a,15y,88.65h,88.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIp__aqXSp3cvMv8vG61HrQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Unfortunately I can't post links. It's at 333 Ipswich Road.

 

[night crawler]

Looks like an old telephone exchange might even be some electrical substation

 

[Roderick]

A bit lacking in ventilation grills etc on the side I can see. Are there no doors on the other sides with signs giving a clue to the owners?

 

[Talent]

Nothing at all. I saw a small box outside (distribution box?) and a cable going inside. But no sign, labels, ...

There's a bright square on top (according to Google maps). Maybe it can be accessed from the roof.

 

[Hayman]

Looks like an old telephone exchange might even be some electrical substation

Looking on Google Maps, it looks very much like the disused electrical substation - also in Essex - which someone I knew decades ago rented. The renter offered, what shall I say, 'personal services'.

 

[Talent]

But don't 'personal services' require a door to get in?

Edit: Maybe a disused substation and a walled up door

 

[Hayman]

But don't 'personal services' require a door to get in?

Edit: Maybe a disused substation and a walled up door

They do, and the door to the substation was a 'very industrial-looking one'; presumably the same one that had been used by maintenance men. Of course, there was no problem with the electricity supply.

 

[ss85-uk]

It’s an old bungalow full asbestos all boarded up