Unusual polling stations

[AlterEgo]

As election day approaches, does anyone have a local polling station which is in some way unusual?

Our local one is a repurposed barn and coworking space, which surprised me - as usually, it's a school and there are two very close by.

 

[Welly]

I wonder if the "Muddle and Get Nowhere" pub in Grantham will be a polling station this election?

 

[Trackman]

In the early 70's my parents voted in a cinema foyer.

 

[SteveP29]

I wonder if the "Muddle and Get Nowhere" pub in Grantham will be a polling station this election?

There's a pub in my home town being used as one

 

[edwin_m]

I used to vote in the gatehouse of Nottingham Castle.

 

[Snow1964]

Richmond Council (SW London) used to use a caravan for the houses near Richmond Park, Ham Common (the boundary with Kingston is close, so no public buildings except across the boundary).

As this is a railway forum, have also voted in a building known locally as Brunel Shed (its in Pockeridge Road, Corsham, with the railway cutting leading to Box tunnel behind)

 

[Busaholic]

Not sure whether this counts, but is it unusual that a polling station doubles as the venue for the count afterwards? If that is the case, then St John's Hall in Penzance, my polling station for the last few elections, is one such for the St Ives constituency. It's certainly an imposing building, grand even, Grade II listed and built in the 19th century. The polling station itself is tiny and quite separate from the large area where the counting takes place. Overnight counting is out of the question because the Isles of Scilly form part of the constituency and those voting boxes have to be transported by air in daylight hours. In consequence, with the 2019 election taking place in December, counting only got underway about midday on the Friday, as no boxes can be opened until they're all there, and it was the last result to be declared, I think.

 

[joieman]

In the local elections back in May, the staff at one polling station found their venue locked up and had to set up a makeshift polling station in a car until someone turned up to unlock the building.

 

[12C]

Isn’t the one at Leeming Bar usually in an old DMU vehicle at the Wesleydale Railway station?

 

[M28361M]

Isn’t the one at Leeming Bar usually in an old DMU vehicle at the Wesleydale Railway station?

Certainly was last time around in 2019. Picture from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50747813

An old railway carriage in Leeming Bar is one of the many polling stations across the country

(Picture shows an old Mk1-type railway carriage adorned with "Polling Station" signs with a man emerging from one of the slam doors, presumably having just cast his vote)

 

[Gloster]

My polling station was in a yacht club. Unfortunately, it is posh in name but not in the facilities that the proles are permitted to vote in. Nice floor, though.

 

[DarloRich]

this one has been listed on BBC. It is under someone's stairs!

Mrs Thomas's house, in the Daventry constituency, has been Winwick's polling station for more than half a century.

Voters tick their boxes in a hallway - under a floating staircase.

Quirky polling stations: Woman who lives in one votes by post

Voters across the East will make their general election choices in some unusual polling stations.

www.bbc.co.uk

(Picture shows an old Mk1-type railway carriage adorned with "Polling Station" signs with a man emerging from one of the slam doors, presumably having just cast his vote)

it is a class 117 driving car. It used a a community hub type thing. I wonder if it is in use this year?