Now it is not every day that someone parks up a steam roller outside you house and leaves it there for a weekend.
A bit of me wondered if an official from the Council might come and give it a ticket for being an industrial
vehicle outside a residential property.
I suspect clamping it might have posed a problem.
Of course it was part of the road works which took place all last week and have caused so much chatter on certain social media platforms.
I have been less bothered about the parked machine, reasoning at least it has taken up a space which would otherwise be filled by a visitor, the like of which regularly turn up at weekends and park up outside the house reducing the available places for those who live along the road.
At which point someone will pass a caustic comment about the Friends of Beech Road being less than friendly to out of town drivers.
So instead I will ponder on the words steam roller, which I grew up with and still use to describe those big heavy machines which flatten and finish a newly covered road.
I know why they are called steam rollers but am wondering if that is still the official term for them, and if not what is the correct way to address such a machine.
All of which will no no doubt provoke further sneering comments about what a waste of a story this one is.
Perhaps, but at least it gives me the opportunity to show off the one parked up and the grand real steam engine which in 1980 was part of the Steam Exposition in Manchester.
At which point someone, possibly the sneering contributor will point that the dates on the old steam roller and the credits don't tally.
And they would be correct.
But I wonder if they have come up with the new name, which apparently is "road roller" which makes perfect sense, but somehow lacks the romance of "steam roller" and that just offers up one last steam vehicle which will feature in its full glory tomorrow along with a few more steam powered treasures.
Location; Chorlton and Manchester
Pictures; steam rollers, 2018 and 1980
vehicle outside a residential property.
I suspect clamping it might have posed a problem.
Of course it was part of the road works which took place all last week and have caused so much chatter on certain social media platforms.
I have been less bothered about the parked machine, reasoning at least it has taken up a space which would otherwise be filled by a visitor, the like of which regularly turn up at weekends and park up outside the house reducing the available places for those who live along the road.
At which point someone will pass a caustic comment about the Friends of Beech Road being less than friendly to out of town drivers.
I know why they are called steam rollers but am wondering if that is still the official term for them, and if not what is the correct way to address such a machine.
All of which will no no doubt provoke further sneering comments about what a waste of a story this one is.
Perhaps, but at least it gives me the opportunity to show off the one parked up and the grand real steam engine which in 1980 was part of the Steam Exposition in Manchester.
At which point someone, possibly the sneering contributor will point that the dates on the old steam roller and the credits don't tally.
And they would be correct.
Location; Chorlton and Manchester
Pictures; steam rollers, 2018 and 1980
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