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Noel's Houseparty

Back in November 1998 Drakelow was chosen as one of the locations for Noel's NTV feature.
In this section of the program selected ' victims ' were sent away to an ' isolation environment '
to spend a week or so away from their loved ones as a punishment for some misdemeanor of theirs.
In our case the victim was 'Trish' from Northampton, who was nominated for being accident prone
and was sentenced to spend at least one week locked underground.

	Mick Earle from Wild Track escorts Trish and her belongings to the women's dormitory, the area we suggested was best for their camp. Believe it or believe it not, but Trish really did spend a week underground. One or two visitors were allowed including our team and her family , but she was not allowed to go outside.
The NTV camp in the women's dormitory. As you can imagine it would not be safe for someone to stay alone down here for a week, so in addition to the camera crew a safety crew from Wild Track was also present.
	They set up a camp kitchen in the tunnel linking the male and female dormitories to prepare drinks and meals. For the duration of their stay they had to rely on their caving lamps and hurricane lamps for light as the bunker was not powered up. They cooked with camping gas.
Trish tries the coffee machine in the 1980's canteen, unfortunately it's empty and cold. (rather like the tunnels really).
	Trish and Mick carry out a bit of cleaning in the operating theatre.
Mick inspects the remains of the 1960's Lamson tube system.
	Preparations for the live broadcast on the Saturday night.
More of the preparations.
	The satellite up-link.

Drakelow RSG 9 (1960's - 1970's) RGHQ 9

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