Report - Royal Mail Sorting offices, Stockport, Jan18

[albino-jay]

Not the most exciting of explores this one, but I’ve seen the threads on here and with it being a local one I guess I had to have a do and it has a roof so why not.

Visited with @Camerashy for a quick mooch one morning. Cheers to @host again for as always, keeping his eye on things lol.

As you can see it’s very empty. It looks like the pikies have just started to get into it. It is alarmed and they do keep an eye on the place. It does get sealed pretty quickly. Not that I imagine many, if any will bother anyway.​

History

I can’t find much history on the place. I don’t know when it was built I’d assume 60s/70s?

A purpose built steel frame cladded sorting office for Royal Mail. Built on the site of the Super Cinema

From what little bit’s of info I can find plans were drawn up to close 3 sorting offices in 2008. Stockport, Farnworth and Oldham and to move them between Manchester and Preston. Stockport closed around the summer of 2009.

There are notices up around the street saying planning permission has been granted for a conversion to apartments. Why it would be converted and not flattened I don’t know.

There is also an old article from 2010 claiming that Greater Manchester venture property fund purchased the site and were planning on demo’ing it to build new apartments.


Pics

First stop was the roof.

Nice lambo pal

Once back inside inside it’s just empty offices…

and empty offices….

and empty offices…..

with this soggy office with some codged up drainage

Stores

One of 3 external staircases and lift shafts.

back onto some empty offices

There was a sign on this door mentioning Arc welding so im guessing some kind of workshop? For repairing the sorting machinery?

big empty floors

Cage against the machine

Canteen

Down to ground level and there was this unloading conveyor ballsack machine.

Quite a few safes kicking about

A room full of em!

Down into the main loading area

Externalz. Ugly aint it.

 

[host]

Nice work mate it may be empty but it’s nice to finally put this one to bed. Love the shots. Time to move on to the next one now.

 

[toby]

Well done, nice job and pix. Enjoyed that, ta.

 

[tarkovsky]

Good stuff as usual.

‘conveyor ballsack machine’

 

[Lavino]

Decent that I like it

 

[EOA]

Nicely done, chap - it needed doing! And I don’t think it’s half bad either. There are a few nice boys there definitely.

 

[Camera Shy]

Good job mate, like you say had to be done being local..... Not epic but certainly seen far worse. Ball sack machines FTW

 

[clebby]

I've certainly seen worse! It's reasonably old fashioned at least.

 

[Baggy trousers]

Mate, this has been staring its ugly face at me for the last six years. Despite being empty, this is epic win!
Well chuffed you managed to get in and get it done.
Pat yourself on the back chap im well impressed and slightly jealous!!

 

[Ojay]

Thought you said it was empty, as in nothing to see

Doesn’t look too bad actually!

 

[EOA]

Nicely done, chap - it needed doing! And I don’t think it’s half bad either. There are a few nice boys there definitely.

I meant to say nice BITS!

 

[Will Knot]

Now that is nice, great work, like the rooftop shots

 

[BrainL]

Well done getting this done at last! My mate lives in the flats opposite here and lost count how many times we've looked at this place and never seen a way in

 

[Funlester]

I use to live across form this and now ive moved, a mile away it gets open.
I spent 6 years trying to get in here

 

[Baggy trousers]

BrianL and Funlester... know how both of you feel I live in the flats the other side of the viaduct and see the thing every day!