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Jun. 24th, 2010 05:36 pm
m31andy: (Doyle - Leaning)
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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!

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Date: 2010-06-24 05:23 pm (UTC)
uitlander: (Default)
From: [personal profile] uitlander
University library lockers. In 1987 the faculty library still had lockers operated by 10p pieces, over half of these were 'permanently owned' by certain students. I gave the faculty librarian back the key I had had secreted for 20 years last year. He perked up immediately and matched it to its old lock, which he said he could now recommission.

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Date: 2010-06-24 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] m31andy.livejournal.com
Ooh, now that's also a possibility. Except, of course, for 24 hour access. Damn. Otherwise, that would've been perfect.

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Date: 2010-06-24 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anne-l-davies.livejournal.com
I'll wager there's bugger all security measures in place on a University Library in the early 80's - a conveniently "open" window affords 24 hour access!

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Date: 2010-06-25 06:13 am (UTC)
uitlander: (Default)
From: [personal profile] uitlander
Ah, now 24x7 access is really a pretty recent thing. It was just one of those things that seemed impossible, like pizza delivery or Sunday opening, back in the 70s & 80s. But most Uni Libraries would be open to somewhere between 10-midnight in term, and maybe 6pm outside of it. The whole point of Sundays was to be bored out of your skull with nothing to do on you day 'off'.

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