When Shall We Three Witches Meet Again? (Macbeth)

[Evans Electric]

Took this from the window of a job in the Jewellery Quarter this morning .     Parking is usually a nightmare but today it was just my van , which is in the street below this window .   After this meeting of the Yellow Peril, and no other vehicle in sight, they strode towards my van, only to find I had a 4 hour ticket on the dash. 

Result!!  

 

[Andy™]

bet they were gutted

and birmingham really that rough they need to go out in 3's?!

 

[ProDave]

We have had a lot of cold icy weather. I've not seen a gritter yet this winter.

That was until today, when it's very mild, way above freezing, and I've seen 2 out gritting today.

There's a pattern there of spending council resources at exactly the time they are not needed (if they are expecting less parking, then fewer parking wardens should be on duty today)

 

[Evans Electric]

bet they were gutted

and birmingham really that rough they need to go out in 3's?!

Not quite ,  It looked like the morning meeting , after swooping down on my van they went off in different directions .

I was told to park on that driveway between the tombstones , they can't do you on there , but I found it hard to believe TBH .     They patrol the Jewellery Quarter like vultures looking for a kill ,  I think there are rich pickings there for the council.

And if visiting ,  DON'T  stray into the city centre bus lanes ,  they return something like £1M  per two months  in fines off the cameras.

One woman apparently, looking to park near the Children's Hospital , went round the badly signed bus lane  8 times and got fined for each one.   

 

[ProDave]

When we were down under earlier in the year, my SIL was wise to how the wardens work there.

She was parked in a 2 hour limit space.

Periodically they go round, and put a chalk mark on one tyre.  If the chalk mark is there next round, you get a ticket.

So every 2 hours, you go back to your car. Wipe the chalk mark off, and turn your car around in the space.

So Evans, is that the Dead Centre of Birmingham? :coat

 

[OnOff]

Took this from the window of a job in the Jewellery Quarter this morning .     Parking is usually a nightmare but today it was just my van , which is in the street below this window .   After this meeting of the Yellow Peril, and no other vehicle in sight, they strode towards my van, only to find I had a 4 hour ticket on the dash. 

Result!!

First thought was "nice sniping position", second was "no witnesses" and third was "somewhere to put 'em". :lol:

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

When we were down under earlier in the year, my SIL was wise to how the wardens work there.

She was parked in a 2 hour limit space.

Periodically they go round, and put a chalk mark on one tyre.  If the chalk mark is there next round, you get a ticket.

So every 2 hours, you go back to your car. Wipe the chalk mark off, and turn your car around in the space.

So Evans, is that the Dead Centre of Birmingham? :coat

They don't even need to do that in London. On their paperwork (now handheld readers) There is a circle of dots  which they mark where the tyre valve of the front nearside wheel is. I have just moved the vehicle back a few inches each time to get round that. Now they all have cameras it may be more tricky, i suppose you would have to watch them but i always park legally now, the customers paying for it.

 

[m4tty]

When we were down under earlier in the year, my SIL was wise to how the wardens work there.

She was parked in a 2 hour limit space.

Periodically they go round, and put a chalk mark on one tyre. If the chalk mark is there next round, you get a ticket.

So every 2 hours, you go back to your car. Wipe the chalk mark off, and turn your car around in the space.

So Evans, is that the Dead Centre of Birmingham? :coat

People are dying to get in there

 

[Evans Electric]

First thought was "nice sniping position", second was "no witnesses" and third was "somewhere to put 'em". :lol:

Naw..just wondering what to do with all the parking bays empty.  

Dave ,  Dead centre of the Jewellery Quarter  

 

[Badger]

i think this has just gone crazy in the uk parking wise with restrictions, its just getting ludicrous now.!

 

[ProDave]

What is this "jewellery quarter" you speak of?

I imagine a posh part of town, where all the Jewellers shops are.

somehow I think what I'm imagining  may be a bit off the mark.

 

[Apache]

What is this "jewellery quarter" you speak of?

Lots of brown men with gold.

 

[kerching]

Very close to the Jimmy Savile centre....jingle jangle jingle jangle

 

[Evans Electric]

Its one of the few "local"  trades left here .  Its a district full of small , often one man , jewellers, ringmakers, diamond setters, chain makers etc.  The main through road is retail while all the side streets are full of the traditional factories, where one man craftsmen rent a small area with a bench etc ....or Victorian houses divided up into usually one room workshops . 

The pub is full of craftsmen doing deals with each other , buying & selling gems etc ,   The largest manufacturer would H. Samuel  I'd guess.   A whole district full of Goldsmiths , gem merchants etc.