Marlborough High Street was built on a hill – that’s the hill that starts up on the Marlborough Downs, runs north to south – down, as it were, Hyde Lane – across the A4 – and on down to the River Kennet.
That may not have been a problem in the days of horses or even of horse-and-carts.
Cars parked in the centred parking area of the High Street know very well the street slopes – and they find it amusing to make an unaccompanied expedition towards the River. It is said to be something to do with gravity.
The trouble is there are other parked cars to stop them – cars that do not have to worry about slopes and hills because they are parked along an east-west contour.
These expeditions are usually prevented by the application of the car’s handbrake…even in the language beloved of car manuals that is a fairly simple notion.
Alternatively, this driver simply got fed up with finding a working car park ticket machine and parked where their car could go no further down the hill.
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