LIFT TOUR | The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley

Things don't always go according to plan......

[@n.f.railphotography7185]

The Schindler M-series the way that KONE modernized it is making it look like an Ecodisc

[@harleelang4907]

Wdym?

[@LondonAndSouthEastTransport]

Those Schindlers and the Otis 2000 could've been really worn out in the motor room. There is always one reason why the lifts were modded

[@battytec]

I think the reason places like these get their lifts modernised is to keep them all uniform. If you have all of your lifts exactly the same it would make maintenance way easier.

[@cherrychen7582]

Cherry

[@cherrychen7582]

W

[@NicolasPetrosLanning]

Don't normally watch your videos, but I haven't been to The Glades in a WHILE.

[@MrCajera1]

Level 4 - Footbridge Level 3 - Pavilion Leisure Centre Level 2 - Car park and Kentish Way Level 1 - Basement and car park

[@karwantofeq1549]

19:52 Alex it’s crest lift company not Jackson.

[@blue.light.fazbear]

Nice video! No idea what the point in modding those lifts were tho, they were working really well originally and they were only from the 90s so what is the point in modding something that is already working brilliantly well and make the lifts run slower?

[@Lift.Tracker]

I agree. I can’t see the problem either. Maybe there were some sort of reliability problems, but I don’t know. I’d say it’s mostly because of the shopping centre management having a lack of knowledge about lifts and were persuaded by the company that they would benefit from a modernisation.

[@MichalM]

Well we've seen it at Crowngate now! Lack of parts means what parts are available are more expensive. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the reason.

[@urgentkestrel7990]

Is the Kone Modernised Shindler M Series still Running its original Shindler lift motor?

[@beebee5633]

The leisure centre lifts used to be Keighley hydraulics.

[@Irishliftandescalatorfilmer]

The lifts probably didn’t even need a modernization at all

[@EEverything360]

11:32 Another E! That's weird!

[@joolz6773]

Why the kone ecodiscs sound depressed 💀

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

Beno has filmed the Kone before

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

Beno can go and do one. I do not condone his childish, dangerous and disrespectful behavior. He messes around with other people's property and puts himself and others at considerable risk to surf lifts when neither him nor his friends are trained engineers.

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

The_ALEX_ELLIS_Channel you know Alex me and Luke Vettel agree with u

[@EEverything360]

You missed 2 ultra creepy Schindlers but they were both in staff only areas though. 1 of them worked and the other didn't.

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

This channel does not promote going into staff only areas of shopping centres to film lifts.

[@EEverything360]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 That's what I meant when saying "but they were both in staff only areas though.".

[@Lift.Tracker]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 I personally don’t see a problem with going into staff only areas, as long as you are polite if you are questioned. However I do disagree with lift surfing and unauthorised motor room visits.

[@blue.light.fazbear]

It is sad to see what they did to the Schindlers and the other lifts that got modernised

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

I do wonder if things would've played out differently if the shopping centre had stayed with Intu Properties. When up in the Midlands, I went to Intu Merry Hill (which has been whole owned by Intu since 2014), and I noticed that they have put in an Otis Gen 2 in 2016, and are currently having a new Ecodisc installed. I wonder if perhaps The Glades would've got better lifts had it stayed as an Intu site, rather than sold.

[@CroydonBusAndTrainFan-c1q]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 i'd wish you'd stop swearing in your videos remember how you said what the bloody hell at 3:36 crap at 12:40 and 13:59 and ass at 18:23

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

@@CroydonBusAndTrainFan-c1q I can say whatever I want to on MY OWN channel!

[@t3224.elevators_nz]

@@CroydonBusAndTrainFan-c1q This is Alex’s channel; he can do whatever tf he likes. And trust me - those aren’t even *close* to the worst swear words you’ll hear in your lifetime…

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΟΔΑΣ-δ4σ]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 the glass elevators are schindler

[@milohunter5257]

10:00 Modernising the Schindler M series lifts were a bad enough, but the fact that they gave the job to Jackson Lifts to mod them with lester controls was just flat out DISGUSTING.

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

I'm willing to bet that if the centre had stayed with Intu ownership then that wouldn't have happened, as Intu appears to be installing KONE and OTIS lifts in their centres.

[@Thebusguyplayz3]

Yes same lift to The brooks shop centre Winchester and the lifts now it is now a Crap Temple Lester Controls similar lifts it was Year was 1991 modernised Glass lift in 2020 It’s a generic lift with Lester controls.

[@TheEthanLeong]

there was a lift near boots creepy Schindler M

[@WarthogMist08]

They were Keighley's in M&S originally. But as you say, "modernised" by Jackson at least 10 years ago.

[@MichalM]

Has anyone filmed the Keighley's? The doors definitely look like Keighley ones.

[@otiscompassrules1727]

Apparently generic lifts are the most common type of lift in the UK, because of the insane amount of generic companies based in the UK. And they all look the same!!!

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

Becuase the UK has a large market, and is full of tight-wads.

[@Bombiedude.]

14:05 and 5:15 these were basically the only cool ones left

[@EEverything360]

3:48 Notice the E on the floor indicator? It probably stands for error. That proves how cheap and shit Lester Controls are!

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

Never even noticed it until you pointed it out!

[@CallmenobodWMAO743]

You know saying the Otis 2000 was made in 1997 it wasn’t even that old

[@StrikeForceGaming187]

7:38 that sounded kind of rude

[@isolatedtrackz]

Yes, but it is fustrating.

[@sergiocortesgarcia3324]

Jackson has the same name as Michael Jackson

[@Themusiic09]

Kone please modernise the jacksons

[@cherrychen7582]

the o2

[@AusmFrancescoV]

Kobe ecodisc

[@TheEthanLeong]

the generic lift that mod schindler m series and otis are very very very horrid

[@alexinnorthernireland9380]

The Jackson mod and ziehll abegg was a shit decision

[@AusmFrancescoV]

JACKSON LIFTS GROUP OTIS

[@rahan573]

Thanks for being a copycat of Benp and forming these nice lift tours (In a good way) Also Glades decisions on these lifts are just seriously bad, I'm now gonna think of this shopping centre as q bodgy shopping centre on my imaginery list of bodgy shopping centres, even the Ilford shopping centre which is kinda bodgy made better decisions of getting Thyssenkrupp to mod thair main old M series hydros lifts? well they have the M series door track with what's blatently Hydrowhare and not generic crap.

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

Although Beno was my original inspiration for making lift tours of my own, i like to this my Lift Tours have something of their own flare, rather than being a straight rip-off. I also don't particularly want to be compared to him, since I do not condone his idiotic and dangerous lift surfing actions.

[@rahan573]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 Ahhh I apologise though still great video.

[@rahan573]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 I actually like how you communicate and spread your interests with other people about lifts.

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

I do wonder if things would've played out differently if the shopping centre had stayed with Intu Properties. When up in the Midlands, I went to Intu Merry Hill (which has been whole owned by Intu since 2014), and I noticed that they have put in an Otis Gen 2 in 2016, and are currently having a new Ecodisc installed. I wonder if perhaps The Glades would've got better lifts had it stayed as an Intu site, rather than sold.

[@rahan573]

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 Oh so it got sold! Yeah it's likely the lifts would've been original because it's been original since intu had it's hands on the property.

[@KimiFan2002]

Christ, this shopping centre is a comedy of errors😬

[@AusmFrancescoV]

H&M

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

But A Idiot Let Jackson Lift Group Modernised It!

[@LondonAndSouthEastTransport]

But an idiot started spreading hate about Jackson lift group and intu Bromley because he is disrespectful af (no it's not you)

[@HKElevatorWorkshop_18]

Trash Jackson lift

[@the_alex_ellis_channel6923]

Why?