We need tables!

One of our last main concerns re: materials, is the severe shortage in tables we have managed to get hold of. There are obvious practical problems of local pick up anywhere outside of London which is where most  seem to be, they have to look right too, fit the setting.

We've been scouring ebay etc for quite some time and have yet to make a purchase, annoyingly at the bootfairs all the regular sellers have great tables that would be perfect... but they use them to sell all their stuff and are too expensive to replace with modern ones so they never sell.

We have considered making our own tables but this would be time consuming and may look a bit over the top (aswell as being a bit dodgy). A sensible compromise seems to be the use of builders trestles and making our own table top, we need atleast 2 long tables and a smaller table within the installation.

If we concentrate on getting some trestles cheap, we can get free wood or cheap recycled scaffolding boards to make the table tops fairly easily. I've found some sources we could use for this: www.lwrp.org.uk / www.communitywoodrecycling.org.uk / some guy in E2 selling 3m planks £5 each.

Something like this: