Ok, it's Luton now... Matt's tour of Luton town centre lifts

[clubpenguiniscp]

arndale mall.gosh.wat a silly vidio.

[LaptopMad777]

LOL 2:38 That Chime Is Awful!!! I Have To Put Up With It When I Have To Go To Unison With My Nanna. Ugg Horrible

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Can you explain, where does that escalator in the arndale car park go to?

[MrUNIXman]

@Meanmanmartin2007 The Escalator either goes out on to Silver Street or Church Street depends what end the centre it was at. Goes from Street to the Arndale Centre itself

[Meanmanmartin2007]

I would be very interested in finding out, does anybody know of any car parks which have lift access only? Or does this sort of thing not usually happen?

[mrmattandmrchay]

Yes, here in High Wycombe! The ex-sainsbury's car park (now demolished) only had lifts from sainsbury to the car park. There were stairs, but you had to walk outside and walk round the side or to the other end.

The best video that showed this was:

watch?v=Oqi0WX1aYCA

see 5:10

Read my response to GaryReggae.

These lifts go straight down into Sainsburys. Also see the 'tribute to kayleigh lifts' which shows these before they were knocked down.

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Thanks for your help

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Who was that person saying about hating the lifts? Is it someone whos going to become an enthusiast in their later life?

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Out of interest, when you went down the stairs in the first car park, were you on the top floor?

Secondly, how do you get to the floors in between 5 and 8?

[mrmattandmrchay]

Yep, I was on the top floor (5th). Don't think there is a floor higher than 5 in this place.

By the way, those lifts at 3:50 used to have a light bulb panel with orange neon lights to indicate where the lift was.

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Thanks for explaining

[Quentinmovie]

I agree with you with the bell at about 2:45!

[Daninafryingpan]

was that a dial tone i heard in one of those lifts?

[mrmattandmrchay]

can you be more specific?  what mm:ss was this at in the movie?

[Daninafryingpan]

from 6:00 onwards. it sounds like you know when the elevator is dialing out when the alarm is pushed or something

[mrmattandmrchay]

That's the fan in the ceiling. I go really close to it with the camera at 6:45

[leethomas84]

Excellent video! Nice so see the (maybe) orginal buttons in the cheapside/bute lifts. Haven't seen a COP like that for a while. Shame to see more generic modernized COP's though, can't they use some more interesting button designs?

Had to laugh at the people who pressed both buttons to call the lift. This annoys me in busy lifts, where people go down before going up, taking up lift capacity but not really saving any time.

[mrmattandmrchay]

Makes you wonder, if they don't know how to call a lift (pressing the correct button), how are they going to drive their car from the car park back home!?

Suppose we will all get to this age, then they'll be calling 'US 'old gits!!

[leethomas84]

A young couple did this last week while I was at the Manchester Arndale (Former sister mall to the Luton one, must be something in the name maybe). They boarded the lift at Upper Mall level, pressed Lower Mall, then travelled with me all the way up to level 13, and complained about the lift taking too long too!! I just had to laugh.