The bollards on Vine Parade

If you have ever wondered why there are two bollards on the southern side of  Vine Parade, I am afraid the answer is a sad one. When planning permission was originally given for the parking outside the shops there, it was expected that drivers would park nose to tail. In fact, they parked herring-bone fashion as they still do in the main. Unforunately, in the 1980s, a driver reversing out of the parking area outside what was then the Londis lost control of their car and hit the woman on the opposite pavement: she died as a result of her injuries. Whenever I went up there, her widower reminded me of the need to park as originally intended.