Parking mad!

The first 40 wardens hit Britain's streets in 1960 in London.

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The eager employees issued a whopping 300 £2 fines on the first day.

Dr Thomas Creighton was the first to get a ticket when he parked his Ford Popular outside a hotel. He was later let off when it turned out that he had been making an emergency visit to a heart attack victim.

New York introduced female wardens dubbed “meter maids” in the 1960s. Barbara Windsor played a traffic warden in 1970 BBC comedy Meter Maids.