Yes, have you noticed whilst cars keep getting bigger but car park spaces are often getting smaller.

I’ve actually been in one car park that once parked, the only way out of the vehicle was though the rear hatch!

Newly introduced spaces at the Belle Vue car park in Saltash, Devon are so small that it would be hard to get park a Smart car let alone a regular vehicle so the question arises whether a parking attendant might give you a ticket if you are not parked in the lines, which on the face of it would be impossible or could you argue that you should only pay half the fee?

According to the British Parking Association, off-street bays should be 2.4 metres wide by 4.8 metres long, but as these dimensions are neither minimum nor written in tablets of stone no one really knows how they might be interpreted by a local authority.

Being a Tuesday I was joined by Margaret Mills for her regular historical feature that this week concerned a 19th century actress, who I have to confess I’d never heard of.

Her name was Ellen Terry with an Essex connection through the Countess of Warwick of Little Easton.

To learn more listen again here to what Margaret told me: –

Hope to catch you again next week,
Scott