A NORTH-EAST and North Yorkshire voters head to the polls tomorrow, we look back at some of the quirkiest stations where residents have previously cast their vote.
Party leaders are preparing for a frantic last day of campaigning in the run-up to “super Thursday” as they bid to sway undecided voters before a bumper crop of elections.
With the coronavirus pandemic delaying a host of elections by 12 months, it means there will be two years’ worth of polls taking place across Great Britain on a single day on Thursday.
On the eve of elections, The Northern Echo has looked through its archives to find the quirkiest polling sites through the years.
A garage, a front room and caravans have featured through the years. Take a look:
Taken in 1999, this photo shows Marian Clane whose front room in the village of Dinsdale, Cleveland, was turned into a polling station for the day. She is chatting to a villager after he cast his vote.
This 1999 picture shows Cllr Steve Kay, Bruce McKenzie and a local resident at a polling station in Lingdale, Redcar and Cleveland.
By early afternoon in 2000, only 10 per cent of the electorate had voted at Knaresborough Forst Cricket Club. Then presiding officer Steve Pilling and poll clerk Dorothy Kirby are shown waiting for voters.
A cyclist passing a 2010 polling station at the Historic Quay in Hartlepool, which saw only 100 voters in the first 12 hours.
Pub landlord Ian Walker(right) with Roger Statham of the village Hall Committee inside the Wombwell Arms at Wass, in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, which was polling station due to building work at the village hall.
This caravan at Cornsay, County Durham, made for an unusual polling station in 2010 - but it wasn't the only one that popped up around the region.
The garage of a resident in the small County Durham village of Roddymoor was been converted into a polling station in 2010.
Binmen were snapped doing their weekly collection in front of the Roddymoor garage.
A voter emerges after casting his vote in the caravan being used as a polling station in the small County Durham village of Oakenshaw in 2010.
Election staff at working in the Oakenshaw caravan, 2010.
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