Mobile tyre fitting
in Sandridge.

A fitter at your car
in Sandridge.

One road carries this village and it does most of the harm. The B651 runs through as High Street and departs as Wheathampstead Road and St Albans Road, and a tyre that clouts something along it usually keeps going as far as the driveway before it complains. The lanes out to Nomansland, Coleman Green and Amwell account for the rest. Phone with the code off the tyre and an AL4 or AL3 postcode, and the replacement is put aboard first.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Private ground is very nearly the whole answer in this village. A driveway, a hard standing, a shared parking area at the back of a terrace: each one takes the van and the jack, and the vehicle stays put. Anything based at Valley Road Industrial Estate is dealt with in the yard when the site expects a visitor. The shop parking is not a public facility and should not be treated as one. High Street itself, and the lane edges past it, are out of the question.

The phone rings from the houses along High Street, from the closes set back off it, and from the lanes towards Ayres End, Nomansland and Cooper's Green. Sandridge has no public car park whatever, which changes how a job gets arranged: there is nowhere neutral to meet, so the work happens on a driveway, on a hard standing beside the house, or on whatever private parking the address has. Almost every property here has space for that. The B651 through the middle is not an option, because the carriageway carries all the traffic, and neither are the narrow lane edges towards Coleman Green, where nothing underneath is firm enough for a jack. Vans kept at Valley Road Industrial Estate get their tyres done in that yard instead.