Home under floor

Press, 1 September 1980, Page 4

Home under floor

PA Wellington A man has been living under the floor boards of the Kilbirnie, Post Office’s new premises. He was found by a telephone technician doing some Wiring among the foundations ready for the opening of the premises today.-.; • ; The technician saw a mattress and rblankets nestled between the ground and the floorboards, which are supported by half-metre concrete i, blocks. Inside the bundle of < blankets was ah bld man. .

The technician did not dis-, turb the man and none Qf the Post Office employees working in their old premises said they had ever seen the man. . But they know he has been there; The indisputable evidence has. been the mattress, blankets, and a. pillow freshly rumpled each morning. Beer bottles littered the ground. The Kilbirnie Post Office branch supervisor, Mr Wayne England,) has asked the police to remove the man.

“We didn’t mind him

sleeping under there — we think he may have been there a month — but he has to go now: we’re opening on Monday,” he said. “If he smokes under there, he could set the whole place: on fire. It’s for his own good; too: he must freeze tinder there.”'

Mr England believes the man may have gone already, with the disturbing bustle above him. But it seems unlikely that he would have left behind his bed, which remained tucked between the concrete blocks.