Those signs you see when you cross a County border.

[Bry Nylon]

Not the ones that say "East Sussex" or "Welcome to Warwickshire" for example. Nothing wrong with those. The ones I object to are the pointless and petty regional brags / claims to fame that sit alongside.

For example, round here at the moment when you travel into Hertfordshire they have erected signs that say "County of Opportunity!" - as if overnight St Albans or Bishop's Stortford have suddenly become new, undiscovered frontier towns. What opportunity, exactly?

And then when I travel back into Essex there are now signs that boast "Host County for the 2012 Olympic Games!" Then underneath, half-apologetically it says "Mountain biking." I mean, its not as if the men's 100 metre final is being held in Basildon, for example, is it? (Although to be fair the fuckers would soon learn how to run 100 metres a damn sight quicker than 9 seconds if it was held in Basildon town centre at kicking out time on a Friday night).

I know Nottinghamshire used to have signs that said "Robin Hood Country" (yeah, great...), and Norfolk have ones that say "6 fingers: a fact of everyday life since 1392" but are there any others I've missed?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Hampshire County Council used to send out all their mail with a special franking on the envelope ...

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - THINK WASTE

Yeah.

I guess it was part of a campaign to encourage recycling.

 

[skipper734]

Balham- Gateway to the South.


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[Mackenzie]

Not a county sign, but the 'Welcome to Merthyr Tydfil' sign used to have 'twin town Beirut' scrawled underneath it.

 

[Martinf]

I love the county rivalry. A friend of mine once told me that a village in Suffolk, near the border with Norfolk (sorry can't remember the name), has an old Clock Tower with clocks only on three sides. The fourth side, facing Norfolk is blank because "they wont give Norfolk the time of day". That's pure hate that is.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The ones at railway stations are worse. Redhill is home of something called Stocksigns. And East Croydon, surprise surprise, brags about its links with Nestlé.

 

[clarkey]

The ones at railway stations are worse. Redhill is home of something called Stocksigns. And East Croydon, surprise surprise, brags about its links with Nestlé.

Haha yeah I love these ones. Welcome to Cambridge, home of the University of.....................................Anglia Ruskin

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

There is 1 sign i really am quite fond of,very fond.Its brown & white and points towards something just off the Falmer road.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think the council of this small French town are missing a trick with their signs. They could be so much better

 

[ferring seagull]

Funniest I ever saw was in the far north of Scotland in, I think, Golspie which
with an arrow read

Swimming Pool - Pedestrians only

That was a long time ago

 

[Martinf]

I think the council of this small French town are missing a trick with their signs. They could be so much better

The bottom of Burgundy?

 

[Hunting 784561]

There used to be a welcome sign on the A23 outside Crawley, saying 'Welcome to Crawley - a Nuclear Free zone', which of course I found particularly re-assuring when driving my Ford Escort through there as fast as possible back in the 1980s.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I think the council of this small French town are missing a trick with their signs. They could be so much better

Did you find that picture by using Google?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Didn't they once have stuff on signs in Brighton proudly boasting that it was a Dutch Elm Disease-free zone?

Perhaps we could do something similarly reassuring now:

Welcome to Brighton & Hove: Leprosy-free since 1936

 

[Jimbo.GRFC]

Must still be the kid in me but I still snigger when I see the road signs for Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker. There's also Bolsover in Derbyshire

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Did you find that picture by using Google?

Indirectly, yes

It would be most pleasing if they twinned it with Dildo, Newfoundland.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And Shitterton <sniggers childishly>

 

[Taybha]

yes ok its not a towny sign but it does say northampton so in theory im in.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And Shitterton <sniggers childishly>

A few years back, there was a (thankfully) unsuccessful campaign by a few JCLs who had moved there to rename the place Sitterton.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I like the tourist sign in Essex that directs you to the "secret nuclear bunker"