Back in the seventies, Scrobs was flogging concrete drainage blocks to anyone who wanted to have a huge car-park.
Naturally, the supermarkets got excited as Tesco, Sainsbury, et al were just getting their buildings beyond a few thousand ft super, and wanted customers to load up their Ford Escorts and Skodas.
One of my best customers was a small firm, probably insignificant by today's standards, but run by a man who had the knack of getting into the car import business, and he started to build car-parks wherever he could. Sheerness, maybe a sorry little town at the time - possibly today, - I haven't been back for years, but worthy of being a flourishing port with plenty of good local labour, had loads of spare space, and my civils man really pulled out all the stops!
We carted literally thousands of the blocks to the sites, night and day, and the lines of cars he stored just grew and grew! It was a fabulous enterprise, and very lucrative for my company as well!
So, who would have thought, that after all this time, those very same car-parks would be a signal of a depression...
Hope it doesn't stay that way.
2 comments:
I hope it doesn't stay that way too. All those cars stuck there because of a dodgy computer model. They should think about going back to the paper and pencil approach.
Sorry to tell you, Mr H, but those blocks came from near you, but at least shoppers in the South-East don't get their sandals wet...
I wonder whether now is the time to get a bargain car, so will be on the look-out for a supercharged Bentley, last owner some stupid foooballer with no money now!
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