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The rooms at the rear of the Wauchope Hotel consisted of a row of tiny box-like structures containing nothing more than a single bed, a small bedside table, one chair, and a small screen television mounted on a bracket attached to the wall opposite the bed.
Originally built to house workers from the Wolfram mine, these were not four or five star accommodations, and in most cases hardly two-star. There were no facilities to prepare a cup of coffee, or even a sink with a tap to get a drink of water. As for bathroom amenities, when a guest decided to retire for the night, he or she had to make sure they used the toilet provided in a small ablution block attached to the back of the hotel, or they would have to go out in the cold if the urge to pee came during the night.
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