Interesting location, do you know it?
Harald
If you'd lived in Britain at the time, you couldn't NOT know it: it was everywhere. Toilet paper sales fell off a cliff, I'm told; some folks were indeed dedicated followers of fashion.
The closest I got to being 'personal' with it was during a shoot in Belfast. We'd been allowed into the oldest pub in the city (well, so the company PR claimed) to shoot a calendar picture for a Scottish beer company (a chain that owned bars everywhere God put bars) and we could only go after closing time. I'm not sure how the security factors were worked out, but it was a bit unnerving to know that we would be letting off flashes in a supposedly closed and empty bar that, if I remember correctly, was pretty much opposite the Europa Hotel, a prime, explosively popular target in those days. To make matters worse, the model had taken off her engagement ring for the shoot and left it in the loo; after we left she realised she'd forgotten to pick it up, so we had to go back and hope someone was still there to let us in. She got it back; I wished I'd never seen her.
I hope this answers your concerns about my proximity/familiarity with the structure!
;-)
Rob C