On Paternoster Lifts on 12:59 - Dec 15 with 3182 views | SWGF | There was one in the library at Essex Uni so used that a few times. Being 6'4" and the height of the lift being approx 6'4" and a bit, timing was everything when trying to get in or out | |
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On Paternoster Lifts on 13:43 - Dec 15 with 3144 views | King_of_Portman_Rd | University of Sheffield has one.. Was a great little adventure up and down again. | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 13:58 - Dec 15 with 3138 views | Oldsmoker | Pauls flour mill on the dockside had one. I worked there in the 70's. My first thought was "that's a bit fast." By the end of the day I was thinking "why is this so slow." | |
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On Paternoster Lifts on 14:01 - Dec 15 with 3133 views | NoCanariesAllowed | I'm a Leicester University graduate, had the privilege/terror of riding upon this very paternoster in the Attenborough Tower. First time I ever got on it to go up, I mis-timed my step off and nearly fell head first into a table on the 8th floor. Tbh, I rarely used it thereafter!! Damn thing was always getting stuck anyway. The number of times I walked into the lobby and saw the top half of some students and the bottom half of others trapped in limbo after it stalled mid-floor. | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 14:04 - Dec 15 with 3122 views | GeoffSentence |
On Paternoster Lifts on 14:01 - Dec 15 by NoCanariesAllowed | I'm a Leicester University graduate, had the privilege/terror of riding upon this very paternoster in the Attenborough Tower. First time I ever got on it to go up, I mis-timed my step off and nearly fell head first into a table on the 8th floor. Tbh, I rarely used it thereafter!! Damn thing was always getting stuck anyway. The number of times I walked into the lobby and saw the top half of some students and the bottom half of others trapped in limbo after it stalled mid-floor. |
Did it get stuck because people tried to go over the top? | |
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On Paternoster Lifts on 14:06 - Dec 15 with 3118 views | jontysnut | I worked there late 70s - I was more worried about my flared pinstripe trousers getting caught. I never went over the top though | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 17:02 - Dec 15 with 3057 views | NoCanariesAllowed |
On Paternoster Lifts on 14:04 - Dec 15 by GeoffSentence | Did it get stuck because people tried to go over the top? |
Don't know - I never dared try the trip through the top or indeed the bottom, but my understanding was it was okay to do so. I think it was just old and unreliable! | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 17:18 - Dec 15 with 3037 views | Samuelowen88 | Our at Sheffield Uni is still going. Very strange to use and not fun if miss timed | |
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On Paternoster Lifts on 18:27 - Dec 15 with 2997 views | PhilTWTD |
On Paternoster Lifts on 17:02 - Dec 15 by NoCanariesAllowed | Don't know - I never dared try the trip through the top or indeed the bottom, but my understanding was it was okay to do so. I think it was just old and unreliable! |
I think I went over the top in the Attenborough Building when I was there but I can't remember what happened. Nothing I expect or I'd remember it. There's a bit in a David Lodge novel where there's a chase involving a Paternoster lift in which the person being chased goes over the top and reappears standing on their head as they assumed you'd have to invert yourself as you did so. | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:30 - Dec 15 with 2987 views | Freddies_Ears |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:27 - Dec 15 by PhilTWTD | I think I went over the top in the Attenborough Building when I was there but I can't remember what happened. Nothing I expect or I'd remember it. There's a bit in a David Lodge novel where there's a chase involving a Paternoster lift in which the person being chased goes over the top and reappears standing on their head as they assumed you'd have to invert yourself as you did so. |
There was one at Salford Uni, and the trick of going over the top and coming back round upside down was often used to fool freshers. | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:45 - Dec 15 with 2978 views | NoCanariesAllowed |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:27 - Dec 15 by PhilTWTD | I think I went over the top in the Attenborough Building when I was there but I can't remember what happened. Nothing I expect or I'd remember it. There's a bit in a David Lodge novel where there's a chase involving a Paternoster lift in which the person being chased goes over the top and reappears standing on their head as they assumed you'd have to invert yourself as you did so. |
I always thought a paternoster would be a superb device in a Sweeney Todd style novel. Ride through the bottom and the trapdoor opens before your empty compartment is restored to the carousel... You a former UoL man, Phil, or was this a visit? | | | |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:48 - Dec 15 with 2970 views | PhilTWTD |
On Paternoster Lifts on 18:45 - Dec 15 by NoCanariesAllowed | I always thought a paternoster would be a superb device in a Sweeney Todd style novel. Ride through the bottom and the trapdoor opens before your empty compartment is restored to the carousel... You a former UoL man, Phil, or was this a visit? |
Yes, was there for a year doing post-grad Sociology of Sport. | | | |
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