Paternoster at Northwick Park Hospital

[@anluisety]

I rode on this lift over 40 years ago just after the hospital was first built. If you stay on the lift it goes down, shuffles across and then goes up again in a circular route............my brother was a scientist working at the hospital and we used to ride the paternosta for fun....Glad to see it is still working after all these years

[@cristinabittante]

I worked at Northwick Park in 2002 and was just reminiscing on this crazy elevator and trying to describe it to my family. I am so thankful for this video! I swear it moved even faster then, and there was no glass wall or fob protecting access. It was the craziest thing!

[@MsGrandunion]

It was renovated earlier this year and is back in use,although its for staff only and you have to sign a disclaimer before you use it. Having said that, I know many staff love it and prefer it to the conventional lifts.

[@HeritageElevators]

@benobve In denmark the signs just says "hold your position" when you reach the bottom or top.

[@IDontKnow-pf6en]

Heritage Elevators thats fun haha

[@itrialobra]

hi is it good to work in that hospital..i am a nurse and im considering ur hospital...does the insitution manages all kinds of diseases? or does it specializes in maternity and child care?

[@mz5879]

Then, why does a sign say "Last floor, further travel dangerous."

[@arandom_guy]

How does it work

[@lobstertexas]

Is this the highest number of floors you've seen a paternoster serve? (8 it looks like?)

[@benolifts]

Sheffield university is the tallest as far as I know

[@stevocooldude]

I know that the lifts at this Hospital are all old Otis Lifts but Is this Paternoster an Otis too?

[@caroleast9636]

It was installed by Otis engineers...I know this for a fact...I was one of them. However, the engineer leading the build, and doing most of the work, was then recently in our numbers from Hall lifts and escalators. This was following the Otis takeover of Hall L&E.

[@upanddownadventures]

This video got shared on a website! londonist.com/2011/11/londons-top-10-lifts.php

[@mz5879]

Do you go upside down towards the end?

[@IDontKnow-pf6en]

[INACTIVE] mz5879's Elevators in Minnesota no

[@edwardberta930]

Why was the 9th floor the highest the paternosters can go but go to a walled floor?

[@caroleast9636]

It served that floor when it was installed. It can only be that the hospital doesn’t want access to that floor.

[@funcik1]

One question , while you went up and down did anyone saw you? I mean do they ignore it and think that 'this person is student' etc.?

[@danwoodhouse9290]

I wonder how many non staff has use this without getting court

[@MsGrandunion]

Very few. The access to it requires you to swipe an ID badge to get to the lobby, which you can see, its the area with glass walls and signs on it. It totally separate from the main elevators.

[@cristinabittante]

The glass walls and fob scan are an addition in the last 20 years. They weren’t there in 2002 when I worked at Northwick Park. I was just reminiscing on this crazy elevator system and found this great video. I think the elevator moved way faster then too! It was kinda terrifying but awesome?

[@michellecollins-betz736]

Many years ago I used it i was about 16 years old even back then it was scary never liked it never will.

[@neaelevator]

Very Cool!

[@PTDriver-rv2so]

paternoster lifts are very DANGEROUS but are also DANGEROUSLY cool

[@arandom_guy]

What is the point of a paternoster

[@upanddownadventures]

It looks like this paternoster used to serve the 10th floor, but it was walled off.

[@liftmaniani2087]

I agree

[@schindlerliftman8313]

1960s lift are better than the modern day lifts

[@slicer819]

If I had a pound for every time I used this lift I would be a millionaire...ex NPH doc. And useless fact....it appears in the film "The Omen", part of which was filmed at Northwick Park...

[@funcik1]

Is it in north london ?

[@michellecollins-betz736]

Yes north west London

[@rattler254]

DON'T PANIC.

[@caley956]

I see N/Park's security is as bad as it was in the 1970s - any Tom Dick or Harry can just wander in and point a camera without being challenged then?

[@IATEDACOCOJUMBO]

for some reason I've developed a phobia of lifts/elevators. I got stuck in one in a mall in LA back in 2004. Fire crew had to rescure me , and i think it was televised on local tv stations. i dont know why stupid shit like that happens to me only. why me ? why ? wont be to Los Angeles any time soon after that incident heh.

[@PTDriver-rv2so]

i wonder if BENO would ever put paternoster lifts into BENO Skyscrapersim!!

[@liftmaniani2087]

Don't panic sign didn't stay of long enough!!!

[@mz5879]

Weird.

[@Tayoaxel]

cool

[@MusicLover88321]

One word: Faulty Towers..

[@seanallen1998]

Epic who do you get off at a floor with it stopping

[@IDontKnow-pf6en]

Emerald Isle Railway Productions you just hop off

[@express777100]

schindler installed the paternoster.

[@caroleast9636]

It was definitely installed by Otis at the same time as the hospital was built. I was one of those Otis engineers and there at the time. Schindler were not involved at all.

[@arandom_guy]

How does it work