They don't make 'em like they used to

We live right on a village street. At the behest of SWMBO, who's
annoyed by vans parking hard against the house, I have been looking into
the legality of parking on pavements. It all goes back to the s.72 of
Highway Act of 1835, which states (take a deep breath):

LXXII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall wilfully ride
upon any Footpath or Causeway by the Side of any Road made or set apart
for the Use or Accommodation of Foot Passengers ; or shall wilfully lead
or drive any Horse, Ass, Sheep, Mule, Swine, or Cattle, or Carriage of
any Description, or any Truck or Sledge upon any such Footpath or
Causeway ; or shall tether any Horse, Ass, Mule, Swine, or Cattle on any
Highway, so as to suffer or permit the tethered Animal to be thereon ;
or shall cause any Injury or Damage to be done to the said Highway, or
the Hedges, Posts, Rails, Walls, or Fences thereof ; or shall wilfully
obstruct the Passage of any Footway ; or wilfully destroy or injure the
Surface of any Highway ; or shall wilfully or wantonly pull up, cut
down, remove, or damage the Posts, Blocks, or Stones fixed by the said
Surveyor as herein directed ; or dig or cut down the Banks which are the
Securities and Defence of the said Highways ; or break, damage, or throw
down the Stones, Bricks, or Wood fixed upon the Parapets or Battlements
of Bridges, or otherwise injure or deface the same ; or pull down,
destroy, obliterate, or deface any Milestone or Post, Graduated or
Direction Post or Stone, erected upon any Highway ; or shall play at
Football or any other Game on any Part of the said Highways, to the
Annoyance of any Passenger or Passengers ; or if any Hawker, Higgler,
Gipsy, or other Person travelling shall pitch any Tent, Booth, Stall, or
Stand, or encamp, upon any Part of any Highway; or if any Person shall
make or assist in making any Fire, or shall wantonly fire off any Gun or
Pistol, or shall set fire to or wantonly let off or throw any Squib,
Rocket, Serpent, or other Firework whatsoever, within Fifty Feet of the
Centre of such Carriageway or Cartway ; or bait, or run for the Purpose
of baiting, any Bull upon or near any Highway ; or shall lay any Timber,
Stone, Hay, Straw, Dung, Manure, Lime, Soil, Ashes, Rubbish, or other
Matter or Thing whatsoever upon such Highway, to the Injury of such
Highway, or to the Injury, Interruption, or personal Danger of any
Person travelling thereon ; or shall suffer any Filth, Dirt, Lime, or
other offensive offensive Matter or Thing whatsoever to run or flow into
or upon any Highway from any House, Building, Erection, Lands, or
Premises adjacent thereto ; or shall in any Way wilfully obstruct the
free Passage of any such Highway ; every Person so offending in any of
the Cases aforesaid shall for each and every such Offence forfeit and
pay any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, over and above the Damages
occasioned thereby.

I particularly liked 'any Hawker, Higgler, Gipsy, or other Person
travelling ...'

 

Obstructing the queens highway usally covers it , ring the plod ,
they will if poked come out

 

then seek advice from DanL

 

Thank you both. Well, TBH, it's simply an excuse for SWMBO to indulge
in some Vesuvian toysram de-interfacing. She was less than completely
gruntled when I told her that it is illegal in London, Bristol and some
other cities, but not nationally.

It's a narrow street and the UPS boys probably have impossible schedules
to meet, so I tend to <shrug>. I really only posted s.72 because of the
magnificence of the language. That said, our plod wouldn't come out for
HGVs abusing our <7.5t limit (even when we provide company and plate
numbers) or cars parked on corners, so they are unlikely to come out for
such a technical triviality.

 

Itinerant merchants. Peddlers.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hig2.htm

 

An Arthur Daley type I believe.

 

Many years ago, a bloke was murdered by a disgruntled student (he was a
lecturer) in our village. The bloke's wife rang plod and told them he'd been
shot and appeared to be bereft of life. Plod came on a fucking push bike,
some 2 hours after the call.

lod do **** all these days unless there's an emergency [1]

[1] Pies have come

 

That would suit Champ - he's in Sales, after all.

 

I hadn't noticed.

 

Brilliant.

 

He's very polite - he'll tap you on the shoulder when he's finished.