I have to be in Kensington Church St near the junction with Ken High on Monday. Need to park for 2-3 hours and have access to the car for loading / unloading. Any local tips for parking? Or will I simply need squillions of coins for the meters?
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It isn't a cheap place but you should be able to find a meter or p&d space not too far away. It's hard to explain the streets because quite a lot are one way. But if you go up Church St from Ken High and take the first possible left, then wriggle patiently around in there, you should find a 2 hour meter space, maybe four-hour, sorry, never looked because I'm a local and carry K&C bumf in my windscreen, just applied today, £115 plus your original document and driving licence, hope I get them back...
Be patient and carry a pound weight of brass shrapnel.
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Thanks Lud. Think I'll have to raid my son's piggy bank on Sunday night. Just have to tell him the tooth fairy's gone bad !
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Good experiencial learning for life though.
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There's a multi-storey car park down the side of the Barker Building on the Young Street side. Right at the bottom of Church Street.
I think I read somewhere that Ken Church Street is none other than the Long and Winding Road what Sir Paul sung about. Linda Eastman (or her dad) had a place there apparently.
Edited by Big Bad Dave on 04/04/2008 at 23:18
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Quite right BBD, right next to what used to be called The Parking Shop where one went with sheaves of the old ill-gotten to pay for the right to exist...
If your burdens aren't too heavy shoespy, that's probably the place to go because there's no real time constraint, a couple of hundred yards from the area I suggested across a bit of traffic and not absurdly expensive (by metropolitan standards of course). From Church St into High St Ken, left at the lights and then immediately right, its 100yd down on yr left.
Well done BBD, I'm covered in shame for not remembering that. Bit nostalgic over there on the snow-covered potato fields are you? :o}
Edited by Lud on 04/04/2008 at 23:27
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"Bit nostalgic over there on the snow-covered potato fields are you? :o}"
Yeah Lud, The Daily Mail were a very good client of mine back in the glory days, they're based inside the Barker building. Riding in the lifts with Brian Sewell... Drinking in Terry Venables's club down in the bowels of the building...
The main reason I remember the car park though is my x-wife bumped into Paul Weller in there and he helped her with her shopping. I was very jealous. Of her obviously.
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Thanks guys, sounds like a plan. Just have to do my sherpa Tensing impression with my stuff but at least it'll serve to maintain jnr's faith in mystic creatures a while longer.
If I see a clearly deserving older beatnik with dodgy trainers on I'll be sure to make myself known. I'll be the sweaty looking scotsman lugging unfeasably large holdalls around Kensington like one of those rehabilitating duster sellers.
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Aha "beatniks" rearing their heads twice in a month on this site - I think I accused Lud of being on late one Friday night.
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Well it clearly left a strong mental imprint PU, I now have this hirsute, sneaker toting journalist-ish bod with a CND badge on his combat jacket sort of picture ( sort of mature Citizen Smith ) but alternatively I still can't get the previously mentioned Leslie Phillips-ish character to go away either. Sorry Lud, you have every right to retaliate ;-))
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I was accused of being Wolfie Smith by a relative of military bearing ! It was a duffle coat, which I still have upstairs. SWMBO reckons I look more like Paddington Bear than Comrade Che.
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Brilliant ! ........Suppose someone had better mention a car soon, so duffle coat and "Ban the Bomb" stickers on the Landie and the spaniels on a string? Got it now, firmly embedded mental picture !
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Meanwhile don't park even momentarily on DYLs, remember the new parking regs !
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Yeah, too true. I was just figuring out for the "fun" of it. Approx 380 mile round trip at say 13p a mile in fuel ( £50 ish ), £9 for the M6 toll, probably a tenner to park, if not more. Probably have to fork out for coffee and a sandwich at London prices. Con charge. Starts to be a Scotsmans worst nightmare ! Don't need a stealth ticket as well.
Edited by shoespy on 05/04/2008 at 01:08
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Just to say thanks for the tips Lud. Your original suggestion worked a treat. £6 for two hours didn't feel too painful given the location. There are an awful lot of Traffic Wardens round those parts aren't there? Tickets being issued LR&C. Just paid my "Con" charge online as well so job done and now safely back in the civilised North. Must go and feed the ferret and get the black pudding on the range!
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I had a yearning for the North today and satisfied it with a bag of Pontefract Cakes. I felt sick afterwards.
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Funny that, pontefract cakes don't agree with the ferret either but the whippet doesn't mind.
M6 was apparently a bit grim today, closed at Junct 2 S'bound all day. Avoided all that by going M6 toll / M40 which were eerily quiet despite that. Must be a lot of schools on holiday or something. Easy journey in fact. Even central London moved OK.
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Glad it wasn't too bad shoespy. If you took the first, small left up Church st actually and found a parker on the left a hundred yards or less in there, I would have brushed past yr motor perhaps one or two days a week collecting smallest grandnipper from school in that corner. But it's the hols now. And my car would have been smugly parked on double yellows round the corner in the place that has always worked for me, and most people, but that is said not to be 100% reliable even with a scrawled notice in the windscreen. Still, long live local anomalies and privileges.
Is there a standard internet smiley-style symbol for fingers crossed I wonder?
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