>> >> Yes - done the full kipping range in my time - police >cells, disused railway carriges, armouries, disused churches, >railway stations, lock cottages, army bases, schools,derelict >factories, exhibition tents lorry containers, barns, knackered >boats, even the odd village hall and scout hut ! >> >> >> > >> > That's a pretty good range! I can't claim many of them - >a church, >> > but it wasn't disused (we really shouldn't have left a WRG radio >> > switched on during the service...), lock cottage at Chesterfield, >> > disused airfield, play school (with toilet doors you can >see over), >> > infants school (where you have to kneel down to wash your >hair under >> > the shower), derelict factory on a BCN cleanup, exhibition marquee >> > at the national, where you set up your own small tent inside for >> > security), and in torrential rain I slept in the site hut >at Blunder >> > Lock on the Cotswolds. On one occasion we slept on the >floor of the >> > pub when the village hall was too full. >> > >> As per Pete's list plus Distillery (King George The IV), Stop plank >> hole in bridge - Mongomery C', Stop plank Shed - T&M >> 1 refusal - a lorry Garage with flappie sides, earth oil covered >> floor, 18" gaps under the doors, and broken windows and that was an >> organised venue, but that's why the police cells are on the list, no >> its not, it was the armoury that night after a bit of B&E. > >I think the roughest place I've ever kipped on a canal dig (at >list as an official 'organised' venue) was the abandoned >Tapton Lock Cottage on the Chesterfield - all windows boarded >up, no electric or water, a one-ring burner to cook on, an >Elsan bucket-and-chucket (but no bathroom to put it in)... >mutter mutter kids these days mutter mutter...
My worst experience was on an 'away' weekend dig to a railway in South Wales. Having stopped off at a pub on the way down, we arrived very late to find the Village Hall where we were supposed to stay locked, the caretaker's house in darkness and the promised alternative accommodation, the 'passenger fruit van' in the station siding, also locked. We ended up sleeping on the bare ground, 4 sleeping bags in a line, huddling under a polythene sheet which happened to be in the back of the car. And we were woken up very early the next morning by rain! David Mack
