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From: Charles Ellson< >
Subject: Re: Stand-up Shelter
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 00 03:56:35 GMT


In article <> " " writes:

> Jim McDonald () wrote:
> : The cheapest overnight accommodation in days gone bye was a Stand-up
> : Shelter.
> : Can anyone describe them?
>
> In a movie called "The Great Train Robbery" or somesuch, starring Donald
> Sutherland and Sean Connery, there is a chase scene through Victorian
> London and at one point they dash through a building that has rooms of
> people sleeping standing up with their arms thrown over a length of rope
> strung from one side of the room to the other. I have no idea if this was
> just the director's fancy, or an accurate depiction of an actual type of
> accomodation.
>
No director's fancy, it was the cheapest accomodation in a doss-house due
to requiring the least floor area per person. IIRC it was known as "sleeping
on the spike" (as in what the rope was attached to).
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