Those signs you see when you cross a County border.

[Lord Bracknell]

Birthplace of British motor racing
Home of the De La Warr Pavilion (as if it could wander off and take a holiday on the Isle of Wight)

 

[Waynflete]

I particularly dislike the signs outside Haywards Heath that call it 'the *heart* of Mid Sussex' with a red heart instead of a word. Naff.

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

On a driving holiday in Ireland in 1992 this sign stood out .
As the song goes ..





We had too , about 20,000 km .

 

[strings]

I'm always annoyed by 'Welcome to Staffordshire - the Creative County'.

'Creative', to me, sounds like what the stupid kid at school is - I imagine his teacher saying "well, he can't read and tends to lose crayons up his nose - but he is creative".

The Creative County - sounds to me like the 'we're not good at anthing so we'll say we're Creative' County.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Luton's Looking Up stated the signs when I used to live five miles down the road in the 80s.

It was a craphole then, and it's a craphole now.

 

[the slow norris]

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.

It's not Brandon is it? Drive through it everyday, you enter Norfolk (Nelson's County, apparently) as you cross the level crossing, about 300 yards away from what I think is a clocktower in the village centre. OOh, you have just made my drive that little bit more interesting tomorrow!

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Staffordshire The Creative County yes the one with Stoke-on-Trent in it !

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Luton's Looking Up stated the signs when I used to live five miles down the road in the 80s.

At least it's true though.

Luton's Looking Up...At The Entire Football League

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Not a county sign, granted, but this used to puzzle me. Why boast that Clapham is the busiest station? Surely that would make you want to avoid it?

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

 

[Lady Whistledown]

This is the beautifully trite Norfolk marketing people's slogan at the moment (and not, as I found on one page when looking for this, "Norfolking Your Sister" )

 

[Gwylan]

Not a county sign, granted, but this used to puzzle me. Why boast that Clapham is the busiest station? Surely that would make you want to avoid it?

What bothers me about that sign(apart from the missing apostrophe) is that Birmingham New Street also has a sign claiming to to be Britain's busiest station.

As far as I can see,they're both places where people will be in a hurry to get away fast.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

 

[Storer 68]

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

it's a hole!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Always good to have a county claim to fame that nobody has EVER heard of.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The marketing gurus in Preston or Lancaster must be very proud of this one.

 

[Storer 68]

Although the world did not end yesterday, as predicted, hell has frozen over...............

 

[Leekbrookgull]

I'm always annoyed by 'Welcome to Staffordshire - the Creative County'.

'Creative', to me, sounds like what the stupid kid at school is - I imagine his teacher saying "well, he can't read and tends to lose crayons up his nose - but he is creative".

The Creative County - sounds to me like the 'we're not good at anthing so we'll say we're Creative' County.

To bloody true.

 

[gjh1971]

They almost had to change this yesterday

 

[gjh1971]

This is what greets me every morning on the way to work