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Depends on you definition of clean. Apart from the graffiti, I'm sure there will be lots of rubbish and old, decaying food. There may or may not be drug paraphernalia.
The squatters should either pay for the clean-up or be made to do it themselves.

It's not the eighties anymore Chris.
The graffiti is on sheets and they have kept the place clean.

They're going to lock themselves in the vault if there is an attempted breach by the bailiffs or police.
I'm hoping the vault is not an airtight one.

Think they will just lock the white gates as they have keys.

Feeding 50/ 60 people daily does not allow for much food to rot.

There is a lot of graffiti on the internal walls. It also concerned me that they were asking for tools and materials to barricade the building which may or may not have meant nailing/screwing things across doors etc.

They are in breach of a court order, the court order told them to leave, they have also been asked to leave by the police and bailiffs but refused to leave. You know from UE's that when you are asked to leave you do, otherwise you are committing an offence.

The building isn't just empty, its up for sale, it doesn't make sense that they are protesting about empty buildings not in use when they are also hindering the chances of the building being sold and put back in use.

If they chose a modern junk building I would have less gripe with them but this is a grade one listed building and part of our heritage that they have vandalised. They have no respect for society as a whole just looking after their own selfish wants.

I doubt it's possible to lock the vault from inside. If someone stays outside to lock the others in they may face a charge of manslaughter since the vault is almost certainly airtight.

That's not good news Chris.

Can't help but LOL at the judgemental statements.

You all had the chance to go and visit



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Have you read all this thread????also looked at the pictures Granny posted???.

It's not good or bad, Ste: it just depends on your point of view.

So you think they should be locked in the safe and suffocate to death?

That is not what i was asking you.I asked if you have taken time to read through the WHOLE thread ,also have a good look at the pictures Granny posted.
So am not saying they should be locked in a safe
Do you think graffiti on the walls is acceptable in a grade listed 1 building.
Say it was your building up for sale and you have squatters writing on your walls and threatening not to leave.Would you just ignore it ?????

Two rooms in a building of 20+ HUGE rooms

I hear the (mainly) 'water coloured' paints used have been mostly removed (Liverpool Echo)by the current occupants, but hey ho, slogans daubed on walls seem to evoke more emotive reactions than the plight of the homeless of the City.

Sense of perspective needed here, me-thinks.

To be honest, my heart sank when I first visited the former bank and saw the writings on the walls but in context, it is no big deal....

As an Activist, i saw the beauty of what the (so-called) 'Love Activists' were trying to do and succeeded to do. As an Urbexer, I adhered to the Urbex Code and did not damage nor deface anything.

The pictures you have all seen are taken in the two communal rooms, 95% of the rooms in the building remain as what they have been for 3+ years- large, very large empty rooms with grey carpet, cream walls and windows. Very very boring. Nobody would take photographs of them.

I have taken and posted two photo albums of the former bank on my facebook wall- one is from an urbex perception (roof and basement/ vaults. The other will be representative of local social history, in due course).

I find it ironic that if the graffiti was to remain- then future Urbexers would be photographing it!!!

From Facebook

This was found on a doorway in Lord Street, 60 homeless people at one point were sleeping in the bank, if only you knew what the place meant to some of the residents there, one guy, who had been street homeless for 5 months now told me how he had cried each of the nights he spent there with joy and happiness, each morning he would get up and clean his room then excitedly show us all with pride. He wrote a small message by his bed saying how much he adores the place, how we're all lovely and how this has been the best week of his life.
An activst has taken him back home to live with them, and I hope a whole new positive chapter has been opened for him.
This story isn't unique though, all the residents there had their troubles, their own stories to share, and all were so genuinely thankful for what was happening, not just for some food and a bed but the chance to feel 'normal' again, a chance to regain some dignity.

There are currently 1.5 million empty buildings in the UK, yet we have people living on the streets, our council are breaching human rights, arresting protesters without no liable reason, placing gates around the building, cutting off water, they are STARVING people out.

Do not accept this as normal behaviour, you as a citizen have rights, you have a voice, together we can make a difference, together we can stop this happening.

This image has genuinely broken my heart, It hurts me to think that it needs to come to all this in order for people to start asking questions.

Support the Bank of Love, tell the world what is happening here in Liverpool, and how the government are trying to stop it, by all means necessary.

We will no longer remain silent.

Unite and resist.

Maybe the people who can't / won't pay the 'bedroom tax' can let the homeless use their spare rooms then their spare room will no longer be spare so no tax due? Simples

That bedroom tax still going?
I thought they scrapped it?
More stealing from people.