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GETTING IN
Richard says ...Entry was from three different places - initially
through Gabby's dad's garage - we had to collect and return the
keys, unlock the garage, scrape past the car, and up the
ladder attached to the wall and push open the trap-door. Second
stage was to construct a ladder and enter from
the loft-door - exposed and dangerous [the door opened outwards
- the ladder had to be placed to the left and it
was a matter of un-locking and opening the door then stepping across
[day or night, wet or dry]. The third entry was finally from a new
trapdoor that we cut in the back left corner with an undercover angled
ladder.We were able to enter through a doorway without a door in the side
wall.
(Alan Hollick remembers he and John Webley made that ladder and when we had it beside the upstairs door some "clever person" took it away on one or two occasions and Alan had to leap from that floor onto the ground to retrieve it.)
Richard says .....The bike shed was built against the side wall. The holly tree next to Mrs McDowell's wall wasn't very good for berries but we cut sprigs to decorate the Stores. The Stores window was originally wire-netting but we put in a sheet of Perspex.
Richard ponders.....What did we sit on in the stores? - a sofa, a pouffe, a woven cane chair? Then there was the ...black two-door filing cabinet, orange box library.old wind-up gramophone, coconut matting. Did we have pictures ? Then there was the umbrella stand and the hopes we had that somebody would arrive with an umbrella and use it ! (And here follows some of the answers Richard- Willy)
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