Man and Van in Winton

Winton runs on Victorian terraces cut into shared houses, and the cheapest room is nearly always the converted loft at the top. That means three flights, a turn on every landing and a final staircase built steeper and narrower than the ones below it. We send two people for a top-floor room rather than one, because a mattress and a desk down that last flight is a two-person job and doing it alone is how walls get marked.

The streets off Wimborne Road are terraces with no driveways and cars nose to tail from early evening, and Winton Banks itself is busy for most of the day. There is rarely a space outside the door, so we find the nearest legal stopping point, keep the carry short and pick a time that avoids the worst of it. We tell you where the van will actually sit before the day rather than circling on the morning.