It's strange that they replaced the fire alarm with a conventional panel from an addressable considering the size of the place. I doubt anything in the car park works although the lift shafts do still have detectors. I haven't had a good look around inside the Go Outdoors store because they pounce on you the moment you step in. One thing they do is hound you to sign up for a Go Outdoors membership or you have to pay the extortionate higher price. The other is you get followed around by a security guard - which is no surprise with it being Chatham! The sprinkler room has always fascinated me with the gong bells above the doors. They actually have a diesel generator too which is the door to the left of the sprinkler room. Thanks for the all the additional details and on that booth. You know a lot about this place. The booth is probably a time capsule, I'm betting that it has been left exactly as it was and the shutters just closed when they decided to close it but who knows...

Yeah. I come from around the area. My nan worked here in the late 80s till the early 90s, and my mum and aunt in the late 90s.

Also, another thing I forgot to mention, the doors by those old sprinkler bells used to be glass, and through one, had the red handrail from the car park. Its a mystery what go outdoors have done, as they have wasted a hell of a lot of space.

If anything it's just getting worse.

I remember that tesco opening in 82 and it was buzzing in the day and all six floors of that car park were busy. The store itself had 32 checkouts and was very busy in the early 80,s. Gradually over time it got quieter and quieter. I went in about a year before it closed down and the checkout line had been reduced to 14 and there was only one till open. I bet tesco didn't foresee that happening to a store that size.

morthren I was born in all saints hospital 74 I grew up in Chatham l remember the pictures and queuing up to see the latest movie and the sweet shop on the other side of the road my mum used to shop in that Tesco store I left in 2015 I’m coming back in a week for a family funeral 😢 I’ve heard from relatives Chatham has got a lot worse ☹️ especially with Debenhams closing down the High street will be a ghost town, why not shut the one in gravesend instead of Chatham??

I fucking love Chatham to many characters 😂

Right - I know the answer now - the right lift was modernised with Lester Controls. The Lift car is original but the buttons are now Lester Buttons.

Drug needles everywhere

Only some stuff from a previous visit that I didn't use in my other video. I'll put something together from it

I think so. If I have, I'll put something together and send you a link

I'll try to do something soon. And thanks... I'm really surprised!

Thanks! I did try at the time but the upper car park doors have all been screwed shut from the outside. They've closed the shutters over the rear lift doors to the disused restaurant too kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epl7etV_0KnGiIE.html

Standard euro cylinder lock. Not that difficult to pick, and it doesn't look like people go there that often. Only risk would probably be getting locked in there

Thanks for giving me the idea! The whole place is spooky. There are no cameras in the lifts or in the back staircase. That's probably why the druggies use it to shoot up. It's pretty grim.

Did you notice the staircase in front of the 3 tower blocks?

Do you mean the bricked up one at 3:30? The bottom one has been bricked up too. You can see it here www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3799281,0.5303681,69a,35y,47.83h,31.92t,-1.69r/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Yes. Do you have any footage of Levels 3-5 before they screwed the doors shut?

Yeah I saw a comment by the a user called Flappy Mappy about them seeing what was there as they'd never seen anyone else use it and it was really clean for some reason and they heard weird noises and saw a weird light (probably druggies with a torch).

It is quite horrible. I was checking out The Brook car park just along from this one and this guy walked past me on the stairs barefoot! He was completely out of his head!

morthren Blimey. Sums it up really. Got a parking ticket once for being 3 minutes over time and being one of like twenty cars in the flipping carpark. Scummy place.

In the brook car park you somtimes get a dead person in the stairwell

I was about to say the same thing! That was shockingly grotty, all needles and stuff round the back staircase was horrendous! Interesting vid though 👍

Well, lets just say, I’m never going to step foot in that car park

well, it clearly became a hotspot for drugs, and it doesn't look like they needed more parking spaces

+Lift & Rail Photography In NZ I think to show people it's closed before they start walking up the ramp.

+Lift & Rail Photography In NZ either that or the gate has been damaged

Yeah I saw that. It's old footage he has put together. GoOutdoors has been closed since UK lockdown on 24th of March but it is open in the video. Every lift door above car park level 2 is screwed shut, I've checked them all out, but they are open in the video. Someone had ripped the hand dryer off the wall a couple of years back but it is on the wall. It's old footage.

morthren Have you seen the video The Beno Movie? If you have then you’ll know what I’m talking about.

@@liftrailphotographyinnz3992 I didn't watch it all, bit too long. I thought you were talking about the latest Tesco Urbex video

morthren I was talking about the Beno Movie, if you skip to 36:28 you’ll see what I’m talking about.

@@liftrailphotographyinnz3992 Looks like he found a way up one of the ramps. The door was padlocked at the top though. It's still a dire place, nothing has changed in Chatham sadly

DJJack 1229 It does, but there isn't a way of sending it there without a key for the keyswitch. They have also closed the shutters down over the landing doors.

So have they switched the store level button and market keyswitch around?

Oh I see what you're saying. It a bit confusing because the rear doors used to open in the actual Tesco store, but that section has been boarded off into a 'secret' area now. Market Street was the front doors but they seem to have the buttons saying Store Level on what should have been Market Street. You can see it at 13:28. If that makes sense.

@@aidanstanding Correct!!!

No

That's it yeah! Wow! Also wow at how I randomly found this untagged comment mentioning me and that stairwell 😆

@@TiptoeThroughTheTwoLips Lol I remember being obsessed with that staircase when I wrote this comment, nevertheless thanks for confirming! I'm guessing one of the fire exits on the ground floor which you can see on street view is also from that staircase

Some people are just disgusting.

since they got rid of phone boxes

Let's just say the usual ones ;)

Lets just say that nobody is going to be getting anywhere secret in this building since the Jordan and the guard dog incident!

I didn't hear about that? I know all the lift doors have been screwed shut from the outside and the restaurant has the shutters closed over the lift doors kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epl7etV_0KnGiIE.html

Beno Lifts wow didn't hear about that!! Crazy!

The car park floors have been fixed shut for a while. They must have seen my video. But they forgot to screw shut the restaurant level doors. Tesco used to be my local urbex. I went there every week. There is so much interesting stuff in there. Somehow they realised that there was someone going into the building, but they didn't have a clue how. They put up cameras everywhere around tesco and PIR sensors. This must have cost them a lot of money. Despite locking the car park levels, they must have forgot all about this as they had no idea that we were entering through the lifts. A few weeks ago me and Jordan were going around tesco and I didn't notice the cameras. Then we suddenly heard doors slamming upstairs on restaurant while we were in the shop level. I looked up to see the faint red glow of an IR camera. This must have been the scariest experience I have ever had while urbexing. We knew every corner of tesco and we worked out the way back to the lift to avoid whoever it was crashing about upstairs. Once back at the lift, I was so scared that my hands were shaking and I couldn't get my drop key to latch the lift to escape. We could hear the guy getting closer and closer. I managed to hit the latch just in time. My friend Jordan is more risky than me. He wanted to play hide and seek with the guy in the building (even though we didn't know who it was). So Jordan went down to the secret levels and put the lift back into service so if he had to run from the guy he would escape through the fire exit and the lift wouldn't be left on inspection (a bad mistake). He was now trapped. We had never tried the fire exits as they were alarmed. Turns out they were all locked. Jordan was now trapped. He ran around the building for half an hour avoiding the guy who knew he was in there (because of the cameras) and was trying to catch him. One point the guy was standing right outside the toilet door where jordan was hiding. Then eventually Jordan ran into the guy. he had a massive guard dog. Jordan had no way out. He was running around tesco trying to phone me while the guy was chasing him. I drove a lift down to rescue him, and amazingly he managed to get out of there without being caught.

Imagine if the guard dog got him, he wouldn't be going to court for tresspassing, HE'D BE A BLOODY CORPSE!

But only from 3 to 7

That's your problem....

Then how did you see the dislike button?