Monday 15th September 2025
Just browsing back I came across this in the comments of an old post:
From Gayle - 20th May 2021
https://conradwalks.blogspot.com/2021/05/trigs-os-103-from-hoddlesden.html
Gayle:
"I was done back in 1959 for Obstructing a Public Footpath." (Me quoted from the post)
"Now there's a statement that demands more context!"--------------------
Not much of an anecdote, and at the time it was one of those requested explanations that was more enticing left in suspense, but "now it can be told."
At the time I was employed as a representative for North Central Finance Ltd., the finance company subsidiary of Nat. West Bank. We mainly provided a service to motor dealers to provide finance terms for their customers buying cars. My job was to persuade the dealers in our area to use us rather than several other bank subsidiaries providing the same service. I also had to do door to door chasing of defaulting customers, and if required actually repossess the cars. If a dealer proposed a customer with dubious credit history, but not too serious we sometimes agreed to provide the finance backed by the dealer's Repurchase Agreement. In the event of repossession the car would be returned to the dealer and he would pay off the remaining balance on our finance agreement.
Taking a repossession back to a certain dealer he was not happy and uncooperative and there was no space to leave the car on his forecourt. I left the car slightly up on the kerb outside his premises but it was mot a no parking location.
Later I received a summons and a fine for Obstructing a Public Footpath. My manager refused to sanction any help in paying the fine. That was back around 1960 and it all still rankles with me.
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