Thank you again ‘Razor’ for letting me know about ‘Weatherfield Police Station', but not for showing me the way in. I tend to watch his videos solely for that purpose and to figure out where they are.
We had passed this extremely boring-looking square building more than once on our Manchester escapades, but it always looked sealed to the eyeballs.
Other than climbing over a large gate, I had no clue how to get in until I found yet another video that told me all. This one was going to be a severe test of my climbing skills or lack of.
‘Weatherfield Police Station’ was once a genuine police station, the square, dull unexciting looks give it away purposely inflicting an impending sense of desperation to criminals being escorted inwards. This is how they used to build them in 70’s Britain.
Coronation Street, the soap opera, hijacked the station for a while, though it's hard to find any information regarding this one other than the masses of evidence inside.
This is the only image I can find which 'probably' is this particular station. The brickwork looks very similar.
The bosses of Coronation Street decided they wanted a more upbeat station and abandoned this one, can you blame them?
The gate wasn't such a big deal, and I was more aware of the on-looking houses than the effort to get over. It takes me longer than @anidiotexplores who tends to sail over barely touching the metal.
The grounds looked as square as the building with no obvious breech points besides the pulled-back 'tin' shown on the gate image.
More effort was needed to get inside which looked like a small room with a hole in the top. I knew this one was going to be a bastard but didn't figure on the extra exertion of getting through this small hole in the roof.
...'see that hole (right top), well there was another one just off-screen and to the bottom of this image, that was the way in'...
@anidiotexplores had to push me up, as this was a full-body pull-up albeit standing on some huge safe or similar in the 'box room'. His back cracked while doing so adding to the torment.
After making it to the small roof yet another hole of similar extra-small size led down into the station proper was just a few feet away. This was somewhat easier but the landing zone hosted an extra wobbly filing cabinet.
Jeez, the shit I do to get in places... and exiting would be the same all over again.
It looked like a real station, probably because it was... with jail cells made of pure steel with bars and a wall to size up the height of the incoming criminals, even the short-ass variety.
We are supposed to be in the UK, not bloody Russia. What is that doing there, a bunch of foreign documents from 1990? Note the ‘198’ is over-typed with ‘90’.
I have done a few Police Stations but this was by far the best looking one to date, the 'wobbly cabinet' is shown on the right.
Correspondence from 2000, I had to remember that most of what I would find would be scripts and fictional documents, but what this… that?
In the case of this, I have to assume it was stuck on the wall for the viewer's supposed authenticity.
Criminal damage? Not by the ex-inmates but by other fake explorers, you can be sure of that.
Jail cells, without even a padded mattress to lie on. It must have been uncomfortable.
Long skinny corridors; ‘Weatherfield Police Station’ is not a particularly large building so architects made sure to use every inch of the insides.
It was once the front door and an inverted image of the sited one further up this post. I think I found the only copy on the internet, besides Explorer images.
Those papers look interesting and are laid out typically for the next explorer to view.
Let’s zoom in a little for a nosey. They are script snippets from past episodes and from the year 2012. Lovely!
Only 40p for a coffee, what a bargain; If only it worked when plugged in we could have had a refreshing break of Columbia’s finest cheap rancid swill.
It would have looked better minus the blue and green paint.
More like the blue paint room. Someone had gone on a spree.
It all looks so real, but any crime records would be purely fictional.
A little over the top on the 'drive carefully' ditties methinks?
Someone had been bedding down in here? The effort it takes to get in and out daily makes 'Weatherfield Police Station’ a really shitty place to live. Beggars must go out daily to collect their salary from the general public.
I guess it works off all the free McDonald cast off's and Costa Coffee they receive while sitting on every corner of busy shopping areas.
A desk is needed for interrogating the criminals just brought in from the streets as well as these many chairs.
Finding a ladder, the only thing to do was climb, which took us to the flat rooftop.
I will add this image again as a reprise as down below, yet another would-be explorer appeared who wanted some action, just outside the gate, and next to that large tree on the upper right.
"How did you get up there?", he yelled oblivious of any nearby listeners.
"Over the gate, through the tinned window, up though the small hole, down the other small hole", came back the helpful reply, courtesy of @anidiotexplores
"What...?"...
...lose some fucking weight mate and you might do better'
He looked around 18 stones, was a young bloke and looked like Big Daddy’s offspring without the muscle. Urban Exploring is not for FAT people, though it could well be used instead of those boring diets of Huel.
No bloody chance of getting in the small tinned building, even if he managed the gate. We watched him slowly walk away dejectedly.
After descending the iron ladder we checked the basement only to find more than several inches of water. Bollocks to that, even with wellies I wouldn’t go down into that cesspit.
Part of ‘Weatherfield Police Station’ had been burnt, but most was intact.
Getting out was marginally easier, as the wobbly filing cabinet was perched higher than the safe, and both of us found a handy bar to leverage the second small room.
Nevertheless, I was fucked after all the exertion. Was it worth it, oh yeah!
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Oh! what a strange police station!... I thought you had gone exploring in some soviet er-republic when I saw that facade! :))... Excellent article and photos as always dear friend!
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I'm not sure what that soviet stuff was doing in there, just a guess at the language.
I'm sure ya mate is getting used to being banged up in these places !
If he is, I don't get to know about it 😀
🤣🤣 would he tell.
Yes
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Age/Weight increase, Slim Jim will not fit in philosophy I suppose.
Please tell the people have got over Coronation Street by now that fricken show ran forever... Soapies,
Know you know what to pack into your pocket if you cannot fit through the roof, soap, part of urban explorer gear?
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Its not meant as disparaging, more fact. You will miss a lot of explores if you can't climb or worse can't fit between the bars of pallaside fencing. I'm not a skinny dude anymore but can make myself so, just breathe in hard.. it seems to work!
Effort always required, I admire how you guys move around getting into some of the damnedest places. Won't see what's in there if you don't try....
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This might be one of the coolest ones you have visited so far I think. Very cool. It's too bad there wasn't a bit more stuff in there and that you weren't able to get in the basement.
I will always remember this one, the effort it took to get in is only surpassed by a certain church that I haven't written up yet.
Inside held some great stuff, I love old scripts such as what we found.
The basement.., someone had been standing on that overturned filing cabinet and there was a chair, but one bad move and you are in the water. I am generally holding a phone which makes me more prone.
Yeah, the water didn't look safe at all. That piss yellow color is a big turnoff!
I try and avoid flooded rooms, I mean what's to see besides filthy water?
A neat find, and a good example of why I, as an old, fat broad, no longer do much exploring. 😆
The best part though was the sticky note reading "will send details again, but so that people can read the writing." 😂 Penmanship was already a lost art a quarter century ago!
Thanks for sharing!
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Yes, I can barely write myself, call it lack of practice. The only time is writing addresses on envelopes for ebay sales and then I balls it up frequently.
Ugh, that's nasty. I'll destroy the police station completely but who am I?😎
Curious in nature, I as a person would love to do this kind of explorations as you show us but in part I am a bit afraid because in my country there is usually a lot of danger of crime in these abandoned places and the truth is that you don't know what you will find. But anyway, wherever you are, it is very brave of you to do these routes. Best regards !
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Yes, I am aware that living in a 'safer' country allows me to do more than others. It's a benefit, though a strange one.
That was a really cool adventure you took us on. It is too bad some "would be explorers" feel the need to vandalize stuff. I am sure that makes things harder on guys like you who leave stuff alone.
That basement looked really dank, but looks like someone gavee it a shot at some point based on the footprints on stuff. I wouldn't go near it though.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, someone had been down in the basement and maybe hopped on to that chair but what then, besides slime images? Holding your phone with both hands on any of those is not a great idea.
I got thinking....
What if a big snake crawls out and chase you away.
Don't mind me, it's Hollywood influence 😂.
The inside looks reparable and could be used again.
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I never think of such things... really! These places are generally deadly silent besides the noise my comrade makes which drowns out all those other odd sounds you don't want to hear.
Heheheheh!
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Definitely one of the cooler spots! But that water… yikes, it's gross. I'm amazed that someone would try going back there. What could they possibly find in all that water? Sitting water isn't my thing. Seems like the perfect way to get sick.
There has been several with flooded basements, I tend to keep well away.
wow this was a wild one! And 40p for some coffee heck yeah!!! lol
I haven't explored a police station before, so seeing the different areas was really interesting. My first thought was that it still looked ok, albeit a bit messy. But when I saw the water and fire damage, then that would explain why they abandoned it. I was surprised that there are heavy explorers as well. With all the dangerous footing and mobility required, I expected all of them to be relatively fit.
Thats a pretty impressive place to explore - rather more interesting than the usual haunt for sure. And fair play for the effort expended to get in !
I can’t believe how much effort it took to get inside, but the photos and stories make it seem totally worth it.I love urban exploration and your adventures inspire me to be more adventurous and curious about the places around me.
An upbeat po po station. Is there such a thing?
I still can't quite believe that weatherfield exists outside ITV!!
It's in damn good "nick" 🤣🤣
Weatherfield have a new posh station now, this one reminds me of the last time I was a bad lad in the cells at the age of 17. They do give you something to lie on by all accounts, but no pillow.
Very bad for us, with acid reflux issues. Don't get slung in jail is the answer 😀
Actually I know someone who got a bit carried away when his missus left him and kept texting her on whatsapp, like scores a day. Badmouthing her and hassling her all the time and she warned him if he didn't stop she would go to the cops and he didn't.
A copper phoned him and said look mate, stop what you are doing or we will have to lift you. He assumed it was a put up job and got worse. So the plod came and got him on a Friday night and he spent the weekend in the cells. He has a dicky tummy and migraines. Did they let him have or get any medication. Did they fuck. Lol! So yes, dont get slung in jail!
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It is very dangerous to enter such government buildings Accountability should be done only after being caught. Showed a lot of courage
It's not been a government building in years, it was used as a prop for a soap opera.
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This place isn’t really destroyed aside from the glass that got broken and others
I think this is one of the best adventures you have had so far
The place looks wide
It looks like one of the best places you have ever visited
It doesn’t really scattered
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That's funny though
You don't really need to go in, except you are ready for it😂
I enjoyed every bit of this exploration, that was chill man.
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