Royal Mail Sorting Office - Copperas Hill ,Liverpool - November - 2012 -

[georgie]

The Copperas Hill building, which over several floors sprawls a three and a half acre site adjacent to Lime Street Station, was purpose built for the Royal Mail.

From 1977 it served as a sorting office until it closed in October 2010 when the Royal Mail opted to move operations and 600 employers to Warrington – with some choosing to take redundancy.

echo article from when it closed

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/10/16/royal-mail-s-copperas-hill-sorting-office-closes-down-100252-27482706/

echo article from when john moores bought it

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/08/25/liverpool-john-moores-university-buys-former-copperas-hill-sorting-office-100252-29298050/

currently getting used to house an art exhibition for the liverpool biennial

http://www.curatedplace.com/liverpool-biennial-2012/

this one has been on the radar for sometime now and with it being almost impossible at he best of times ,we decided to check it out while it was getting used for the art exhibition and allowing public in.

originally it was just supposed to be a recce but after entering and admiring a bit of art for a bit ,it appeared (as sparkuk) found out that it was easier than anticipated to go wandering into the off limit parts,and have a free roam of the building.

we firsty ended up behind the scenes ,then worked out way up until we was on the roof we then decided to work our way down floor by floor.

on a day where we expected to be gazing at art id never imagined being in your canteenz,on your roofz,and in your medical suitez of a building ive always wanted to explore...........

dont get me wrong it wasnt all plain sailing as we found out ........

when we went to explore the basement we found out it was alarmed ,secca turned up ,we waited for a bit and left.............after making a donation into the donation box...............


visited with sparkuk,kevsy21,and jimmy carr

this was part of what the public was allowed to see , ive added it cause i think it sets the report off nicely
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garston,mossley hill,lark lane,bootle,walton,kirkby,maghull,ormskirk
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leaving that part behind we went wandering
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working our way down we found the canteen and kitchens
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the floor below housed a medical suite............was kind of mad at times it looked and felt like we was in a hospital
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thought this was quite funny "the unexpected guest" maybe it should have been changed to guests....
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reckon that was about half of the complex there was still lots we never got a chance to see

[BB]

Hats off fella! Good to see more stuff from the land of scouse! :thumb

[georgie]

Hats off fella! Good to see more stuff from the land of scouse! :thumb

nice one mate a few more things to come from around here

[Clough]

Awesome mate I like big spaces in derps is good to have them all to yourself.

Banging boss

[Rebel]

Thats a nice cheeky diversion. Any pictures of the basement :D I'm have to remember the charity bucket trick :lol:

Superb :thumb

[ROYALBOB]

Cracking stuff

[georgie]

Awesome mate I like big spaces in derps is good to have them all to yourself.

Banging boss

nice one boss

[georgie]

Thats a nice cheeky diversion. Any pictures of the basement :D I'm have to remember the charity bucket trick :lol:

Superb :thumb

cheers man unfortunatley no pics of the basement

as soon as we got past the barrier they put in place a light came on and the alarm went off, shame really as there is supposed to be a tunnel that connects to lime street station for the mail.

shortly after secca turned up lol
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[MJS]

looks good mate. Nice pics

[georgie]

looks good mate. Nice pics


cheers bud