[sneak]

Been wanting to get up here for ages but never seemed to clock a simple route. Curiosity played itself out in the final success of this 2 year mission! For every 10 fails, There's a fucken epic win


Some nice history to this place. Robbed it some Manchester site, guys clued up!



It was built in the 1930s (there is a foundation stone on the High St side of the building which gives actual dates) for the John Rylands company who occupied the whole building. Rylands was a Cotton and General Goods Wholesaler founded by John Rylands (related to the Rylands of Warrington - the wire makers) and the John Rylands Library on Deansgate was founded by his widow in his memory.

Rylands was taken over by Great Universal Stores.

In the 1950s Pauldens, which had its own store on Cavendish St, suffered a fire which literally burnt its building to the ground.

They relocated to the lower three floors and basement of the Rylands building and shared the loading stages in Bridgeway.

Rylands maintained a customers and staff entrance on Tib Street, next to the Tib Street entrance to Pauldens and the warehouse staff entered by the loading stage stairs.

In the mid 1960s, when I worked as a management trainee for GUS, I worked in the building on the fifth floor. The layout and systems in the building were very 1930s in design and operation. Rylands eventually closed when GUS abandoned its sales force and expensive city centre warehouse locations and went to direct ordering.

The building was granted Grade II listed status in 1994.



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PeaceoutOneTimeWICKEDDD. oh aye yeh merry xmas, bit fucked me haha, well quite very fucked, prob reason am sad enuf to be on ere writin this shit at this time. fuck it hhahaha

[Jimmy]

Well done mate, loving the dusky type shots coming from that new camera of yours.

Brilliant rooftop as well, we told the staff I was a retard and was scared of lifts in order to get up there haha.

[Ojay]

Nice one Sneak! Big buzz when you crack summat good like this after sooo many fails, makes the shit really worth it....

Some sweet pics as well

Merry Xmas to you and Nicola

[sneak]

Originally Posted by Jimmy_Halfway

Well done mate, loving the dusky type shots coming from that new camera of yours.

Brilliant rooftop as well, we told the staff I was a retard and was scared of lifts in order to get up there haha.

Yeah man sayin im scared of lifts has been the funniest way to blag security ever. That, and acting pissed is a good! They let there guard down


Ta oj you too mate haha wit ya fucked leg there feel for ya dude big up

[Jim Gillette]

Love those pics. Especially the second one man.

Big up!

[tarboat]

Originally Posted by sneak

I like this one! Good work Sneaky boy!

[NickUk]

It's a good one this isn't it! Jimmys lifts phobia was hilarious! The top floor has some nice stained glass on the roof dome!
Glad you finally cracked it! The new camera is looking good!

[sneak]

Ontop in there!

Felt like we only just got away with it! We took a route that took us past the staffed storeage floor. fuckin bang ontop mate guys came runnin out shouting us on our way back down as he'd seen us walk past the doors. Be on ya guard there!

[Jim Gillette]

Originally Posted by sneak

Ontop in there!

Felt like we only just got away with it! We took a route that took us past the staffed storeage floor. fuckin bang ontop mate guys came runnin out shouting us on our way back down as he'd seen us walk past the doors. Be on ya guard there!

Yeah, it's easy to get lost in the staff areas. We were lucky that it was deserted when we did it.

[Gone]

Appo was convinced in trying to get us to get a people shot behind the training tills Haha. Well done Sneak!