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Mine is a portacabin in the back of Asda carpark.
Village primary school
Scouts meeting hall or whatever it's called...? A lodge maybe?
Multi-purpose studio in a parish council building
community center according to google maps
5 min (0.2 mile) walk
so no excuses
Church.
Model boat club - usually some quite interesting stuff around to look at if it's busy.
Church hall
In my village it is the delightful village hall next to the wonderful pub I'm sitting in at the moment.
Sadly I'm registered to vote in Weymouth, so it was a postbox.
Anyway drizzle is easing so I'm off for a ride.
Local school, approx 100 metres away. Took me all of about a minute to get there this morning 🙂
Sports hall I can see it from my bedroom.
Church. Felt like going dressed as The Kurgan
Church hall, 500m away from front door of my house.
primary school at the other end of a steepish hill...
It's some sort of small community centre or other, I don't actually know what it's day job is.
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Church
The one behind my house is a sports hall but due to new houses being built it's too small. So I have to go to the sports centre down the road towards the new houses. Guess where the people who live in the new estates go?
The local primary school, just 200m away but I do postal voting 'cos I'm not going to mix with the great unwashed*
* Or it might be because I'm lazy and with postal voting you can do it in advance and not worry where you are on the polling day
Community centre at the end of the cul de sac. Going to pop in on the wat home from work in my lycra, that'll make sure the officers have earned their £200 or whatever it is.
I dunno what you'd call it, not a village hall in the traditional sense, but it's the sort of place where they have toddler nurseries during the day and yoga classes in the evening. Between Tescos Express and the pub.
It's some sort of small community centre or other, I don't actually know what it's day job is.
This (which is a bit sad given I drive past it twice a day)
community centre - the only time I ever go in it
I think mine moved from the village hall to the Church Hall for the last election so I'm guessing it'll still be there when I go & vote later.
Only about 500mtrs between them anyway so not too far to walk if I go to the wrong one.
Bowling club 25m meters from my house. It's such a trek to get there 😆
It's a primary school that's closed for the day where people go to vote, but that's not important right now.
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Local arts centre about 500 metres from my house. But I voted by post, so I don't need to visit.
I've voted in a pub before, in Dorsetshire!
Bowling club, about a 3min walk away. I drove there.
Village hall, right next door to school where I dropped kids off this morning.
PS Love the pics of dogs and a horse at polling stations. 😀
Local Methodist church.
No idea if they have giant pencils or not:
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Village hall - opposite the pub.
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Not my dog as I'd have to tie him up near the Tory canvasser standing in the rain trying to get final votes.
Church Hall. The happy clappy modern style, not the style used to train the home guard in dads army.
Bowling club, about a 3min walk away. I drove there.
Green Party voter?
Methodist church, next to the park and a minutes walk from my house. Remember when I first voted when I was still registered at my parent's house, the polling station was in my infant school. Felt really odd to be walking around there as an adult, seemed so much smaller, obviously.
Village Hall, where I like to spend Tuesday evening having the shit kicked out of me at Karate.
Mines in the nearest village hall, about 1 mile from my house.
A [url= http://childrenscentresfinder.direct.gov.uk/cc3299/overview/ ]Sure Start Centre[/url]. For now.
Someone's conservatory.
It used to be a different conservatory, again just round the corner but there's been some jerrymandering recently.
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Nursery section of primary school. Main school open for day, nursery closed.
A Working Mans club. Always fun to as there is a short but steep flight of steps to get up and the wheelchair and disabled access is round the back in the rubble car park and often blocked by cars. I usually spend more time helping people up and down the stairs than casting my vote. Really wound me when Shahid Malik refused to help a wheelchair user as it was against the rules, didn't stop the other candidate there from helping.
Portacabin - it's over the road from my house, very handy - it was only missing for 10 days before they brough it back after the local elections.
The old TA drill hall (now an Army cadet hall)
0.2km, so no excuse but I have a postal vote since way back when I never knew where I'd be one day to the next.
That said - I've wavered so long wondering which way to vote in the past 2 weeks that in the end I didn't post it and will have to go there and hand it in person to the returning officer anyway.
A village hall in the next village along, just shy of 3 miles away.
Just idly wondering,
All these churches... would that be problematic for some of the more devout of other faiths? Are there any religions which forbid the entering of other places of worship?
)Genuine question, I'm not trying to start an argument. Just curious.)
Village hall, 400m from home.
Are there any religions which forbid the entering of other places of worship?
It'll be church halls in the main rather than the actual churches themselves so , probably not a "place of worship".
More like a "place of dodge ball", "place of toddlers groups" or a "place of tea and biscuits"
Mines a closed down childrens centre!!!
Miner's Welfare Hall.
perchypanther - Member
It'll be church halls in the main rather than the actual churches themselves
Actual church in my case. I felt wary about stepping over the threshold 😀
Actually, for some reason they switched from the church hall next door to the church last year. Usually been the hall. It's a nice churchy church though.
It's a nice churchy church though.
That was lucky. Easy to recognise. Those phone-boxy or kebab-shopy churches can be tricky. 🙂
Mines the local 'Institution' what ever that is!!
Village cricket clubhouse. I'll be popping in post-ride this evening (sadly, bar wont be open)
Leeds Society for the Blind - some joke potential in choice of venue?
Having done my democratic duty I'm now sitting outside watching who's going in.
Many more younger than older but that could mean students with free time during the day and other age groups at work. Who knows.
At the splendidly named St James the less parochial catholic school in Rawtenstall !!!!!
Conference room in the hotel around the corner. Boringly they're now making us use the side entrance, previously everyone voting has had to walk through the lobby and bar to reach it, past people having breakfast/lunch/dinner/a drink.
To be honest that's probably a good thing, after this election walking past a bar would have been far too tempting at midday.
The Eagle and Child pub in Ramsbottom is a polling station - not my unfortunately, I had to make do with the local primary school.
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Mines a closed down childrens centre!!!
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Village hall, apparently it's been really busy! Saying that last election result was 60% for the Tories so I don't if that's a good or bad thing!!
Mines a closed down childrens centre!!!
Bit of an overtly political choice!
These commercial venus that get used - does the government simply commandeer them I wonder, or does it book and pay like everyone else?
They couldn't afford the bird and bastard [ eagle and child ] and they'd probably have to come back later when there's a table free.
Until this election mine was the church hall for the church that's about 400m from my flat. This time it's crossed the road to the RC primary school, making it closer by nearly 100m.
All the pictures of saints on the walls in the reception area felt a little incongruous. Probably because I went to secular schools and apart from that this one seemed similar to my memories of my primary school.
These commercial venus that get used - does the government simply commandeer them I wonder, or does it book and pay like everyone else?
yes the taxpayer pays, prices have gone up, thats why this election is the most expensive ever- that was before the terror attacks and all teh extra security they are putting on
Mine would be a primary school 45 minutes walk through the woods (or a 20 minute drive). Applied for a postal vote in 2010 and have stuck with it - I miss voting in person though.
I think it would make more sense to use Argos, they've got the booths and the pencils and everything
Mine’s one of those happy-clappy churches. I voted by posts never got to see inside...
Rachel
Are there any angry-slappy churches? I could be converted if there are.
Dead classy mine...
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The local Tesco, in the main foyer. Follow the signs for the toilets and it's on your left.
Was quiet when I went at 10am, will be heaving after the schools kick out.
Annoyingly the kids school is a polling station but not mine as I live the other side of the main road. So I dropped the kids off then had to walk 2 miles in the rain to my polling station in a portcabin in a carpark
In the brothel above the saloon
The Bethal Baptist Church. Oddly it has the vibe of an early nineties youth club about it and smells of old people.
The village hall a couple of miles away. They had a listing of the addresses of those out with the immediate village. I was surprised how many farms and out of the way houses and cottages there were in my community.
The ladies at the desk said that the turnout had been good despite the rain.
Village hall about a quarter of a mile away.
My school was closed today as it's a polling station, I went in and used the opportunity of the school being open until gone 10pm to get a stack of work done. I parked next a car that had a sticker saying "Keep calm and go hunting!" I think it belonged to the flat cap, wax jacket wearing activist stood outside the entrance to the school hall.
Weirdly they close the school even though there's another polling station less than 200m away (a church hall) - down to the number people each polling station can handle apparently. I have to say whenever I could see out on to the street it looked busy with people coming and going, so I imagine turn out has been pretty good.
Mine was in our local pub. Shame I voted before they started serving....
The village 'Old Folk's Cabin'