Those signs you see when you cross a County border.

[Norman Potting]

A few years back there was a very successful April 1st spoof on TV claiming that Warwickshire had changed the county signs from "Shakespeare's County" to "Home of the Teletubbies", even showed council workmen replacing said signs.

 

[Giraffe]

Worthing - Centre of Business and Tourism

Or something like that.

 

[The Spanish]

bexhill home of television always makes me laugh.

 

[bhaexpress]

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.

Well Fratton Park is an ideal venue for a recycling centre.

 

[Gully]

Wasn't there once a sign on the entry to Slough saying that it was twinned with Chernobyl?

 

[sod1]

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?

nottinghamshire signs still show " robin hood country ", on a lesser scale when entering Epworth in North Lincs , the signs show "Epworth the home of the Wesleys " (also the birth place of Ian Botham , but no mention of him )

 

[Gwylan]

nwhen entering Epworth in North Lincs , the signs show "Epworth the home of the Wesleys " (also the birth place of Ian Botham , but no mention of him )

That's because he was born in Heswall, Cheshire

 

[sod1]

That's because he was born in Heswall, Cheshire

only going by what the locals have told me !

 

[ofco8]

Kent - "Garden of England." Not sure what every other county with lawn and flowers and trees in the country has if not a garden!!!.

 

[Stoichkov]

Newhaven has one - 'Gateway to Europe'

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

bexhill home of television always makes me laugh.

Should read-
If you get the chance turn around.

 

[Brian Potter]

"Welcome to Blandford Forum - an interesting Georgian town" always use to crack me up when I was based there. Blandford may be many things, but interesting is not one of them.

 

[The Spanish]

Newhaven has one - 'Gateway to Europe'

what makes me laugh most is the town centre sign that also says centre ville underneath in a half hearted attempt to snare some euros from passing tourists.

 

[Seagull Stew]

bexhill home of television always makes me laugh.

Hastings is the birthplace of television. Bexhill is the birthplace of British motor racing.

 

[Muzzy]

Kent - "Garden of England." Not sure what every other county with lawn and flowers and trees in the country has if not a garden!!!.

Kent is close to being spelt correctly as it is close to being the arse end of England! Yorkshire has always been known as the garden of England way before Kent took on that so called claim to fame.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I went on a walking holiday down Offah's Dyke. I was welcomed into Shropshire about 12 times within the space of 15 miles, yet never warned I was leaving and straying into Wales. Most inconsiderate of the the Welsh.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Newhaven has one - 'Gateway to Europe'

I thought it was "Catflap to Europe".

 

[Goring Gull]

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.

Bournemouth station has - home of LV=

 

[The Spanish]

Hastings is the birthplace of television. Bexhill is the birthplace of British motor racing.

i am sure it is bexhill that has that on the sign as you come in. happy to be wrong though.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Most pointless sign: Crawley: A Nuclear Free Zone. As if a borough council has any influence in where nuclear power stations are built or weapons situated. A slightly more level-headed Labour administration quietly binned them: As far as I can remember, the council saw sense long before the Tories took over.