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Research question - can anyone help?
It's London, 1982, and you want to leave, say, a small amount of cash, an A4 envelope/file full of 'state secrets' and a passport in a location which is accessable at all times, is not too difficult to get into, but is safe enough. Ideally security would be of the "if you have the key you can open it" as I require a third party to be able to access it (with the key, of course) It also needs to be fairly long term.
What would you use?
I suspect lockers at stations (esp. Waterloo and Victoria) would've been in the process of being removed at this time, and even if they were still available, you couldn't get away with having a key to one for three years, could you? They were strictly short term only.
PO Boxes aren't, apparently, actual boxes, unlike in the States and elsewhere. (Which is annoying because they are rather cool, actually!) Has that always been the case?
Bank safety deposit boxes, at least now, are too difficult to get into, require too much ID.
Gym/swimming lockers, I suppose aren't accessable 24 hours? Tempted to use a bathhouse (*g*) but also suspect that you'd definitely not get away with long-term use of the locker and/or the proprietor turning a blind eye to you using it, wouldn't be so impressed when other 'gents' start using it as well.
Thoughts?
Oh, and ta muchly!
Oh, oh - and if you can't guess what this is for, I'd be very, very surprised!
It's London, 1982, and you want to leave, say, a small amount of cash, an A4 envelope/file full of 'state secrets' and a passport in a location which is accessable at all times, is not too difficult to get into, but is safe enough. Ideally security would be of the "if you have the key you can open it" as I require a third party to be able to access it (with the key, of course) It also needs to be fairly long term.
What would you use?
I suspect lockers at stations (esp. Waterloo and Victoria) would've been in the process of being removed at this time, and even if they were still available, you couldn't get away with having a key to one for three years, could you? They were strictly short term only.
PO Boxes aren't, apparently, actual boxes, unlike in the States and elsewhere. (Which is annoying because they are rather cool, actually!) Has that always been the case?
Bank safety deposit boxes, at least now, are too difficult to get into, require too much ID.
Gym/swimming lockers, I suppose aren't accessable 24 hours? Tempted to use a bathhouse (*g*) but also suspect that you'd definitely not get away with long-term use of the locker and/or the proprietor turning a blind eye to you using it, wouldn't be so impressed when other 'gents' start using it as well.
Thoughts?
Oh, and ta muchly!
Oh, oh - and if you can't guess what this is for, I'd be very, very surprised!
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Bribe in the right hands? *g*
Really, for three years it's hard to beat the old lock-up option. Just because you don't have much stuff to hide, doesn't mean you can't hide it in a nice (relatively cheap) anonymous lock-up with a padlock and key.
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Of course, nowadays we've got lovely storage places. But they didn't really start coming in until the early 80's. And our intrepid duo would've needed it for three years *by* the early eighties!
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Some lock-ups were pretty small and if, for instance, it was Doyle's space then the rest of the lock-up might have motorcycle parts, if it's Bodie, fishing gear and the like.
It would also give them a "legitimate" reason to have the space that no one would question.
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I could probably stretch it to a small bag of essentials, but anything else is going to get too complicated to move.
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Then your mate's suggestion of a railway locker sounds like your best bet... How about Brighton?
Although you can get on to a lot of the smaller station platforms at night, they just assume your ticket will be checked/issued on the train.
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... And there's still nothing to say that you couldn't have a small holdall sit in a lock-up all by itself.