What are these for??

[Tom Williams]

I was visiting my grandad today, and I walked past the entrance to a car park, in the entrance of the car park,(through an arch in the building) there are two normal red and green lightships for stop and go, but there is also this wierd yellow thing above them with a red part, if anyone knows what they are please tell me as I have been interested in them since I was a child.

Street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0518968 ... 95XMFQ!2e0 Check out 6 St Martin's St Shared via the #StreetView app
Screenshot:

[Big L]

Assuming it is private parking for the business to either side of the entrance, maybe you could ask the people there?

[Tom Williams]

Assuming it is private parking for the business to either side of the entrance, maybe you could ask the people there?

The business that is there hasn't always been there and probably wouldn't know what they are, also, the barriers have been removed and haven't been replaced

[Octaviadriver]

Are they some sort of warning if a vehicle is too wide to fit through the entrance, as it certainly narrows at the front if you're coming from the back of the building? Did the red part light up at night as a warning perhaps?

[Tom Williams]

Are they some sort of warning if a vehicle is too wide to fit through the entrance, as it certainly narrows at the front if you're coming from the back of the building? Did the red part light up at night as a warning perhaps?

I've never seen them light up in all the 18 years of my life, they may have in the past, I don't know

[Fenlander]

Are they some sort of warning if a vehicle is too wide to fit through the entrance, as it certainly narrows at the front if you're coming from the back of the building? Did the red part light up at night as a warning perhaps?

I was going to suggest height rather than width, if the red ovals had "TOO HIGH" marked on them or something.

[Pendlemac]

Looking on the Google Earth imagary shows a building there in 2001, replaced by the car park ( with barriers ) by the time of the 2006 image.

As it appears to have been a barrier controlled car park not visible from the road, I wonder if they were set to light up when the car park was full so that people did not have to reverse out of the opening?

[Tom Williams]

Looking on the Google Earth imagary shows a building there in 2001, replaced by the car park ( with barriers ) by the time of the 2006 image.

As it appears to have been a barrier controlled car park not visible from the road, I wonder if they were set to light up when the car park was full so that people did not have to reverse out of the opening?

Sounds like a logical explanation

[Tom Williams]

Looking on the Google Earth imagary shows a building there in 2001, replaced by the car park ( with barriers ) by the time of the 2006 image.

As it appears to have been a barrier controlled car park not visible from the road, I wonder if they were set to light up when the car park was full so that people did not have to reverse out of the opening?

Where do I get the older imagery?

[Pendlemac]

Looking on the Google Earth imagary shows a building there in 2001, replaced by the car park ( with barriers ) by the time of the 2006 image.

As it appears to have been a barrier controlled car park not visible from the road, I wonder if they were set to light up when the car park was full so that people did not have to reverse out of the opening?

Where do I get the older imagery?

As usual Google make it difficult as you can only see old StreetView images when in Maps and can only see old overhead shots when in Earth!

There is a new Google Earth browser plug-in for Chrome but I've not used that so don't know what ( if any ) older images are available.

Google Maps - Bring up StreetView. If you can get access to older images there is an icon that looks like a clockface surrounded by anti-clockwise pointing arrows. Click on this to bring up the date picker.

Google Earth - Click on the clockface with an anti-clockwise green arrow to bring up the date slider.

ps Prepare to lose hours just looking at how places you know have changed.

[Tom Williams]

Will this method work with an android tablet?

[Chris5156]

Will this method work with an android tablet?

You could try it and see?

[Tom Williams]

Will this method work with an android tablet?

You could try it and see?

ive tried on an android tablet, and as far as i can see no, however it is aailable on a computer running windows 10