Mobile tyres fitting service in Maidenhead Berkshire
We offer the lowest priced tyres and a mobile tyres
fitting service for Maidenhead Berkshire. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Maidenhead Berkshire. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Maidenhead Berkshire
Maidenhead is quite a new town by English village
standards. Its neighbours Cookham and Bray are much more
ancient and were Royal manors held by the king before
nearby Windsor Castle was built in 1070. Elentone was a
hamlet about one mile north of present-day Maidenhead
and had around 50 inhabitants at the time of the
Domesday survey (1086). A Norman knight called Giles de
Pinkney held the hamlet. His memory lives on in the
nearby village of Pinkney's Green to the north-west of
Maidenhead.
Some years later after 1200 a village grew half way
between Cookham and Bray and south of Elentone called
South Aylington (which obviously derives from the sound
of "South Elentone"). It is thought the village was
situated some three-quarters of a mile away from the
river Thames to avoid flooding (which occurred in
Maidenhead as recently as 1947).
Nothing much happened in South Aylington until the
day a wooden bridge spanned the Thames. The first bridge
went up some time before 1255, when Henry III issued a
road widening order. That was to change the little
village for ever - suddenly it was on the road between
London and Bristol, later to be called the Bath Road -
now the A4. A timber wharf was built alongside the
bridge and it is from this New Wharf or Maiden Hythe
that Maidenhead takes its name.
"Maydenheth" was granted its first charter, breaking
ties with Cookham and Bray, by Queen Elizabeth I in
1582. The present spelling came in to use in 1724. The
new travellers coming through the town over the bridge
had to be fed and watered and this is why the town grew
so quickly after the first bridge was built. Stabling,
vets, blacksmiths and coaching inns like The Orkney Arms
were also required because at the time Maidenhead was
one day's journey from London. They must have been a
thirsty lot - at one point Maidenhead had four
breweries.
The next big change for Maidenhead came with the arrival
of the Great Western Railway in 1838. Brunel spanned the
Thames with the brick built railway bridge which still
stands. Initially the town declined as the railway took
away the road traffic that had been such an important
source of income. However, soon people realised they
could live in the country and still travel to work on
the "iron road." The age of the commuter was born. The
town's population increased and new shops and businesses
grew to serve the middle-class workers.
In the late 1800's many new streets appeared in the
town centre along with both elegant and working-men's
houses on the outskirts. The Orkney Arms changed to
Skindle's, a popular hotel (now closed, see below) and
the whole town was often linked with scandal in
connection with the tourist and playboy visitors who
came for a break in the country by the river.
Today you can travel by train to Paddington station in
London in about half an hour and junction 8/9 of the M4
motorway linking London and the west country is a mile
or so from the town centre; Bristol is about an hour and
a half's drive. Maidenhead has a population of around
60,000 and is part of the Royal Borough of Windsor and
Maidenhead. |
