To ask what the lift is called?

[Downunderduchess]

Putting this here, because I don’t know what subject it should come under. I was fascinated with a recent thread where several people mentioned a particular type of lift. I had never heard of it before, definitely don’t think we have them in Australia. The lift goes around a track & you jump out at your floor. What is it called please?? I want to tell someone about it & would like to know it’s correct name. Thanks!

The One Show did a feature on them. Fascinating! These are my ideal lifts as I have a phobia of getting stuck in lifts and the doors not opening. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk

I went on a visit to Sheffield University recently and my meeting was in the Arts Tower. Was very disappointed to find the paternoster out of action that day

There was one in Lewis department store in Bristol when I was 13 so early 60s . We were told off a lot for going all the way round !

@notimagain Thank you for this, has made my day! I remember riding this lift when visiting by brother at Essex uni - I was about 12 and had never seen anything like it!

Birmingham Poly had one back in the day, B block. I was thrilled and terrified by it at the same time. I was never brave enough to go over the top and still regret it. 😂

Fascinating

Had never heard of them and couldn't picture it.

Just watched clip

Marks & Spencer Pantheon store in Oxford St used to have a staff one years ago.

Interesting experience!

@PurpleFlower1983

I went to Sheffield, theirs was in the Arts Tower (the ugliest building imaginable) and it used to scare me to death!

Did it? Did it really?

(male here) 40 years on I still remember discovering that I'd left my flies open throughout a uni interview at imperial, by the smirks from waiting students as I descended on the paternoster.

I really want to go on one now

Crossed post

Never been anywhere that had one sadly. I don’t think Northwick Park Hospital has one any more.

I love them! I've never heard nor seen of them before, thanks to everyone for the links.

The Sheffield one used to have interesting graffiti as you went up (mid 90's). It moved so slowly that you had plenty of time to read it all !

I once fluffed a job interview at U of Leicester because I was so unnerved by the paternoster between the waiting room and the interview room. Someone pushed the emergency alarm in one in a student residence in Vienna when I was in it, and even though I wasn’t at a standstill for very long, I was mildly creeped out.

I left Essex Uni 9 years ago and still regret being too chicken to go all the way round!

Wouldn’t it be great to have a ‘paternoster dumb waiter’ mashup?
Recently had reason to do a bit of research into domestic dumb- waiters - think they ‘just’ go up and down.

Even the sound on the video scared me!

There was a story at Leicester that a 3rd year once decided whilst out of sight going round the bottom to empty his bag out and lay on the floor looking dishevelled so the big queue of first years waiting to get on thought it turned upside down! Attenborough Tower in Leicester, great fun and I think everyone went round the whole circuit at least once.

I also got stuck in it once, when it broke down between floors. obviously you were forbidden to try and get out in case it started moving again!

They had one at the University of Central England in Birmingham when I was there in 2002ish (think it’s the same one mentioned at Birmingham Poly as it was in the Baker building). Idiots used to tie people’s back pack straps to the handle inside so that you couldn’t get out at your floor. If you went all the way up it stopped the whole thing and someone had to come and reset it. There were about 8 floors and the paternoster was your only option if you didn’t want to take the stairs.

Why were they do common in universities?

They were used in university buildings because they could move larger volumes of people around than normal lifts. I can see the benefit as you often have to wait a long time for the lifts (not paternoster) in buildings in my university.

Fuck.That. Normal lifts with doors are bad enough

Not everybody knows that if you stay in a Paternoster lift at the top, it turns over before descending.

(joke!)