Hello list:
last week my other half came across an unusual lift in the Riverisland store
in the trafford center, manchester. It is a platform style lift enclosed
within a standard lift shaft, that is to say the platform itself is
unprotected from the shaft walls. you keep your finger on the button to keep
the lift moving. the door at the top of the shaft is at 90 degrees to the
lower door, so not necessarily where you would expect to look for it. In
fact as the door is the same colour as the walls Catherine said it seemed
when looking up from below as if there were no door at all and you would
keep going up until you hit the roof. she found the experience very
unsettling and only re-entered the lift because the signage didn't make it
clear that it was not possible to exit from the first floor of the shop to
the upper floor of the arcade, and she didn't fancy tackling the staircase
with a pushchair.
not our week for lifts actually as we got stuck in one at a restaurant in
town yesterday. some kind of time limited key activation from within the
building that works in conjunction with key activation in the cage itself.
luckily we had mobile phones and a member of staff with us so we were able
to phone the switchboard and ask them to re-activate the lift. not really
worth the free drink we got as a result.
they'll be getting a grumpy Email as the disabled toilet was on a different
floor from the dining room requiring access by lift, again staff supervision
required.
good job they serve jolly nice food.
Adrian Higginbotham,
Help2Access
University of Salford
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Tel: 01612952555.
Web: www.help2access.org.uk
Technology House, Lissadel Street, Salford M6 6AP.
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