What is your polling station usually?

[Fez909]

Mine is a school, but it's next door to a windmill! Wasn't expecting that as an option, tbh. Niche!

Windmill (remnants) in the background.

 

[weepiper]

Current address it's a community centre a 5 minute walk away. Previous addresses it has been the primary school my kids were attending, a village hall, another community centre, a different village hall. All pretty unexciting.

 

[starfish]

Its a Community Hall/Library thingy but not in a village or attached to a Church.

 

[Sue]

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Windmill (remnants) in the background.

quimcunx definitely wins on the windmill front.

 

[Fez909]

quimcunx definitely wins on the windmill front.

Yeah, it's grim up north. Even our windmills are crap

 

[maomao]

Used to be a church hall one minute a way but got burned down by junkies and so have to walk to a school half a mile away. My workplace is a polling station but puts a portacabin in the carpark rather than closing.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Mine is a community centre that looks to me like it had previously been a school.

 

[moomoo]

A community hall. Looking at the notice board they do a thing called ‘Pam’s people’ which is chair based yoga for the elderly and this…

I’d join up but unfortunately this over 50 has to go to work.

 

[MickiQ]

Mrs Q and I have had postal votes for a while but our assigned polling station is the Village Hall. We watched the local drama group put on a performance of The Scottish Play there a while back. First time I've sat and watched the whole thing all the way through. For something that was written more than four centuries ago it's still pretty good.

 

[bemused]

Mine is the roman candle church around the corner, always has nice staff.

 

[Boudicca]

Mine is a deaf centre, but looks very much like it used to be a church hall.

 

[Boudicca]

I was running a sewing class this morning in a community centre which was also a polling station.

This turned out well as a man came in, saw us and then offered to bring me a (free) sewing machine which he doesn't use.

 

[scifisam]

A primary school.

Admit it, you just started this thread to show off that you have the coolest polling station. I mean, gotta admit it definitely is.

 

[nottsgirl]

Mine is a community centre but it’s the size of a postage stamp and I don’t think they ever use it as a community centre.

 

[StoneRoad]

Postal vote this time.

In the past Polling Stations seemed to be concentrated in local schools - so the kids had the day off.
One year in Newcastle our local one was in a portacabin ...

Wales, the village were my late father lived it was the WW1 Memorial Hall.

Here, it's in the community hall attached to the Methodist Church. The potential alternative of using our local Library / Mechanics Institute fails as it has no dedicated parking and the access to the primary school and leisure centre is unsuitable for mass use, to say the least.

 

[Fez909]

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Windmill (remnants) in the background.

They've moved my polling station, which I didn't realise until I got there. First time it's ever moved in the five years I've lived here.

I did get a nice pic of the windmill though

 

[Looby]

It used to be a function room at the back of a pub. Was always nice to have a pint after voting.

Now it’s a church hall so less fun.

 

[hermitical]

Local rugby club

 

[clicker]

I voted in the same hall I do pilates. Resisted the urge to plank.

 

[jannerboyuk]

Mine is a Boys & Girls Club.

 

[InArduisFouette]

Separate queues for the posh end and the pub end of the area.

a lot of places now have that , one physical Polling station but two sets of of polling appartus and ballot boxes dpesite it being one one ward / consituency due ot numbers on the electoral roll

 

[moochedit]

They've moved my polling station, which I didn't realise until I got there. First time it's ever moved in the five years I've lived here.

I did get a nice pic of the windmill though

Yeah that caught me out a few years back after a boundary change. I always check the polling card now.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Scout Hut

Lately it has been an envelope, though.

 

[RubyToogood]

Primary school. They had some great fruit themed art up. I had to resist the urge to stop and play with all the stuff in the playground.

 

[danski]

Scout hut. Has that distinct smell, too.

 

[Elpenor]

Community hall which is part of town council offices

Never been to it before today but have walked past

 

[Elpenor]

Never missed a day of school through elections - definitely got shortchanged

My mate in Bristol was voting at the tobacco factory - a sort of bar / arts venue

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They've moved my polling station, which I didn't realise until I got there. First time it's ever moved in the five years I've lived here.

I did get a nice pic of the windmill though

That's not a windmill as there is no sign of Windy Miller

 

[xenon]

I forgot to change my address, so went to the old one. Same constituency and the polling station is on a small city farm. One of the rooms, not pig pen.

 

[Boo Radley75]

A boring school, here. They did try to move it into a Jehovahs Witness church but were turned down because getting involved in politics goes against Jehovahs Witnesses beliefs. Anyway, the JWs have now moved out and the Muslims have turned it into a mosque so maybe they might allow a polling station there, not sure what the Muslims beliefs are in that regard.