Parking Problems your majesty? (1 Viewer)

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King Arthur sorts out the parking problem:

When the original King Arthur wanted to park at Stonehenge, he simply rode up, got off his horse, tethered it to a rock, and went about his business of worshipping ancient stones.

Parking in latter-day Britain is, of course, a nightmare. Which is why, when the reincarnation of King Arthur wants to go and worship the grey wickets during the summer solstice, he now has to pay £15 to stow his Kawasaki motorbike.

Yet this week brings new hope for the 62-year-old self-proclaimed reincarnation – legal name King Arthur Pendragon; former name John Rothwell – with the news that Salisbury county court may be sympathetic to the divine parking rights of kings.

Pendragon has petitioned the court to revoke all fees, citing articles nine, 10, 11 and 14 of the European convention on human rights. As a neo-Druid, he argues that this “pay to pray” impinges on his free right of worship, and in an early victory, the court this week granted him a full day to hear his case.

This is not the first time the former Royal Hampshire Regiment parachutist has gone into battle for the liberty of the Henge. In the 90s, when English Heritage first brought in visitor charges, he campaigned for free access to the site, resulting in multiple trespass arrests. More recently, he called for the immediate reburial of the cremated remains of about 40 bodies found at a nearby archaeological site. And he has repeatedly stood for election in Salisbury, on a platform of green-ish libertarianism.

Pendragon was a happily mortgaged family man before he began joining biker gangs in the 1970s, rising to the top of the Gravediggers. In 1986, after an encounter with a book of Arthurian legend, he realised the similarities between his own life story – squaddie, biker, property owner – and that of the former English head honcho – mythic king, sword-puller – were unmistakable and overwhelming.
 

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I remember the days as a kid when we passed on the way south west, just pulled up in the car and wandered all over the site at will. Had a picnic and on our way again after half an hour, no litter no damage and never saw anyone abusing the place. Fings ain't wot they used to be.

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