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The Whippet Inn
The Whippet Inn is an unlicensed pub off of Warwick Street in Norwich, England. It was a project undertaken by a fourth year student called William Downing to try to produce an establishment in the area where people did not need to worry about money and could leave troubles behind. The Whippet Inn is carbon neutral.

Location
It is situated in a small disused brick building in the garden of house number 33, Warwick Street, Norwich, England. Norwich is a highly cultured city in the East of England. It has two cathedrals and is one of the English cities that carries the myth of having a pub for every day of the year in it.

Construction
Renovations of the brick building and construction of The Whippet Inn began on 16th August 2009. Most of the initial work involved clearing the site of a huge collection of road signs and cones, broken gardening equipment and general rubbish. The next stage in it's construction was finding a suitable paint that would be bold on the walls, would not damage the brickwork and also was visually appealing given its location in a garden. That paint turned out to be an off white-green mortar paint that, although mixing the paint was cheaper from a small business rather than a chain-store, turned out to be highly expensive because a simple emulsion paint would have done.

Painting took three days: Purposely for the overall aesthetics of the establishment only two walls were painted, each wall required two coats of paint as well as grouting and repainting at some points in the brickwork. The window was also painted for both aesthetic and insulation reasons.

The next stage was repairing and constructing benches, chairs and a table for the Whippet Inn. The bench was built from two recycling boxes, two breeze blocks, a wide plank of wood and a blanket - cushions were added later. One chair was constructed from some milk crates and a cushion, another chair was constructed from a purposely broken cabinet and a cushion was added, another chair was repaired by adding a plank of sawn wood to strengthen it's back, and teh final tow chairs were slavaged from a rubbish heap, cleaned and cushions were eventually added to each. The table and desk-come-bar were also salvaged from a rubbish heap.

The final initial additions to The Whippet Inn were it's lighting: Wax candles to both light and heat it's interior and blue solar-powered star-shaped LEDs on the outside. The LEDs had to be naailed into place, whereas the candles were simply positioned on ledges created by the existing brickwork.

Initial construction was completed on 28th August 2009. Further construction included the addition of coat pegs on 20th September 2009 and a red velevt curtain for heat, light and noise insulation across the doorway on 12th October 2009.