in disguise I WOULD like to inform you Scrooge is not dead, he is walking around Farnworth disguised as a traffic warden. My wife and I had reason to go to Farnworth on November 24. We entered Brackley Street from Asda direction, when I drove into Brackley Street I could see Brackley Street had the road up halfway down. What I did not know was they were turning it in to a pedestrian zone. I thought it was just road works. My wife and I had not been to Farnworth for about five months so we did not know about the change. I stopped put my orange badge in the window, and entered a shop as I turned round I saw Scrooge booking me. I went out and asked him why he was booking me, he said: "Because you are parking in a pedestrian zone". I told himas I have told you. He said "I have started making the ticket out now I have to complete it." So he booked me.

That is a laugh in itself. When I got home I rang the Chief Traffic Warden and he just said "put it down to experience".

That's a fine thing to say to an old, disabled person. The government give the old people £10 for Christmas, I have now got to find another £10 to put to it so the traffic people can have their blood money. I asked the Senior Traffic Warden for his name but he did not give it to me. It is getting so now the Orange Badge is hardly any use. Every time we go shopping and park with our badge we are terrified when we come back there is a ticket on our car. Maybe ghosts of Christmas past will visit the traffic wardens of Little Hulton, Farnworth, Walkden and show them the errors of their ways.

K Roberts

Dunster Place, Mosley Common

Worsley

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