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09/08/2008

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Jenny Eclair narrates a eulogy mourning the imminent death of the parking meter.

4 Extra Debut. Jenny Eclair pays tribute to the parking meter, which is facing extinction due to replacement chip and pin machines. From August 2008.

Jenny Eclair narrates a eulogy mourning the imminent death of the parking meter, compiled by Josie Barnard. Fifty years after the first parking meter was installed in London in 1958, new methods of paying parking charges by text threaten to make these potent articles of street furniture extinct.

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