car parking

[peanut247]

why was hyde park used as a car park in 1989

[logic]

to allow people to park their cars there.

[logic]

seriously, I think it was something to do with a rail strike, but not sure,

[logic]

ask a Londoner,



On second thoughts don't bother, they never have a clue about anything in London, :-)

[New Judge]

logic is quite right. It was to help overcome a strike by London Underground workers.

As I recall, a number of areas in the park were covered with some sort of heavy duty steel mesh to prevent cars churning up the grass. Of course this was during Mrs Thatcher’s tenure and before the days when environmental considerations (or indeed the concern to not appear partisan or to encourage “strike breaking”) took precedence over making efforts to enable business to function as usual.

Such facilities would certainly not be provided by the current government, and I doubt that any executive in the near future would be likely to follow Mrs T’s example.

Oh, and by the way, I am a Londoner and unlike many of my fellow residents, I do know quite a lot about my home city.

[logic]

Woops,

Sorry NEW JUDGE.

[New Judge]

No probs logic.

You are quite right. Generally the last person to ask anything about London is a Londoner.

Most of them never set out on a journey without an A-Z in their hand. The funniest thing to witness is when they are forced to the surface in an unfamiliar area because of a tube strike or breakdown. They have no idea where they are or what direction to head in. They have no knowledge of any area more than 100 yards away from the station they usually emerge from.

I think I’m a bit of an exception. My friends and I spent much of our younger years travelling all over London by bus, tube train and on foot and I know most parts of the City quite well.

[sara3]

oh, you people are SO rude.. I'm from London!

I don't know the answer, btw :o)

[logic]

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[logic]

i remember when I once took a load of smokeless fuel (coalite,) down to London, in the late sixties,It was to be delivered to somewhere called the Bricklayers arms,
Being as I'm from Mansfield in the Midlands, I was looking for a pub,( silly me )
Two Policemen gave me wrong directions, one even sent me the wrong way on a one way system,
I just couldn't believe it when an Asian chap directed me straight to it,