We've also got the Asian fruit shops sprawling out across the pavement again, more so now it's wider.
When you see the parking of some vehicles, 2 foot from the kerb stopping traffic passing each other it needs sorting. Paint double yellow lines outside of the parking bays and ticket people who don't park inside them.
I witnessed as a child the changes to an adjacent town where the traders would take over the pavements, the streets with their cars, ignore parking and traffic rules, ignoring other road users by double parking, stopping to chat to mates. Now that Hayes has been opened up, I am witnessing it all over again and the town will become a twin, slowly segregating itself. Apart from mini supermarket names, why are big business and familiar names ignoring Hayes Town? My opinion is that they stay away because the customers are not there and they will not come, ever
I don't understand why it attracts so many people. There's nothing there that warrants the traffic hassle they must have trying to park.
Pedestrianisation ruined Hayes Town. Also in the past there was lots of free parking, on streets, at the swimming pool and in Pump Lane. All that's left now is a small part of the parking in Pump Lane which of course you have to pay for. Councils all over Europe have wilfully destroyed their shopping centres over the past 20-30 years. Insane.
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Does anyone remember or know where they moved to, my friends from York Avenue from the 40s 50s and 60s.
Hope you get some response Michael. Sometimes people have responded to posts like this months or even years later, so do keep tabs on it.
I seem to remember being told that Frank McAlpine moved to America with his wife Carol. I knew them for a while in the early 60's and I remember Frank was quite a character. . I hope you find some of this helpful.