Strange Road Signs

[Shut Up Legs]

Just one example from the Warrington Cycle Campaign

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/July2017.htm

... which reminds me of ...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Salisbury Plain is quite good for this sort of thing....

And in case you thought about digging for it....

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Not really a road sign, but I saw this while cycling through the swanky part of town today.
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I had one of those signs, but the Land Rover derivative
Okay, not seen in the garage here, but it's a nice picture on Ramsden Lane (above Holme village)

 

[steve292]

Near Warren, Castlmartin firing range west wales. There used to be one that said Tanks in middle of road as well

 

[Serge]

Not a road sign but,

It's a good job I didn't have my daughter with me, I'd left her lead at home.

 

[PaulSB]

Scroll down to Morecambe Bay Old Coach Road & Sunderland Point Tidal Road
http://www.wetroads.co.uk/lancashire.htm

Some years ago I bought a full-size, pub style football table on eBay. The seller lived on Sunderland point. The arrangement was we would collect and the table would be left in an outhouse. We arranged a collection time and seller commented along the lines of “you’ll be OK the tide will be out”

We didn’t really understand that remark until we arrived. The lady lived in the very last house on Sunderland Point! Not a good road even when the tide is out!!

Fabulous location though. Insurance nightmare!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The seller lived on Sunderland point. The arrangement was we would collect and the table would be left in an outhouse. We arranged a collection time and seller commented along the lines of “you’ll be OK the tide will be out”

We didn’t really understand that remark until we arrived. The lady lived in the very last house on Sunderland Point! Not a good road even when the tide is out!!

Fabulous location though. Insurance nightmare!!

Last point
Yes, a great location, but the houses are well above the (spring) high-tide, level
That's from memory, as it's quite a few years since we were last there, as I still had the Discovery (which was px-d, for a 110CSW, in December 2005)
2004, according to the date-stamp


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/125417


The "Tide Will Be Out" comment reminds me of Burgh Island Hotel, & how they used to tell customers that they could walk over (when the Sea Tractor was out of service)

A lot of charity events still seem to be held across the bay. As you say though, you need people who know what they are doing to keep you safe. Such as 'The Queen's Guide to the Sands'!

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Is that an old image, as I thought he had died?
There was, attached to the post, an 'official Sand Guides' cottage (or was....)


Sorry, slight digression/background.................
Years ago, as a kid (I'm 52 now), mum & dad took me to Morecambe almost every year
Sometimes on the train, before dad got a car
That was when the station was on the Promenade, opposite the fantastic (now fully renovated) Midland Hotel

Guided walks over the Sands were on offer, but they'd never do it, & at 9-10-11 (years), I wasn't allowed to join in by myself
So, when I started running, & though myself fit enough, someone told me about that, & the entry fee was in the post the same day!!!
Sadly, when we went the Midland was fully booked for a Wedding, so no rooms
We did have afternoon tea there, though, before the race

I remember it, as a 'Club', a B&B, a wreck, so it's very pleasing to see it how it is now​

The run was done in alternate directions, time dependant on the tides
I ran from Flookburgh, to Hest Bank
As much as I like Morecambe, it's not the same as looking at the Lakeland Fells, as you run

We drove to the start (having overnighted at a B&B near Tewitfield Marina), Joanne waved me off, then drove back to Morecambe
Due to roadworks, she only bet me back by about 10 minutes!

Still look back with happiness, at that race, my first half-marathon too

Still happy with the time, given the river-wadings (crotch deep in the main channel), & the wind blowing in
(a 'sub 1.43')

I'll have to suggest a day-trip there again, soon (I want to see if the Winter Gardens is now fully restored)

Digression over, thankyou for being patient


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[Profpointy]

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Near Warren, Castlmartin firing range west wales. There used to be one that said Tanks in middle of road as well

Pity the translator didn't know the Welsh word for gun

 

[Jenkins]

I've posted this somewher on here before and it's not a road sign, but 2 different ones - the combination always makes me smile when I go through Easton

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've posted this somewher on here before and it's not a road sign, but 2 different ones - the combination always makes me smile when I go through Easton
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In Wakefield, at the bottom of KirkGate, we have.................
They must be damned deep bath-tubs!!





And, maybe not real.....................

 

[Serge]

Just one example from the Warrington Cycle Campaign

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/July2017.htm

This has got to be my favourite one so far:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/September2007.htm

How much money was p***ed up the wall on that project? It beggars belief.

 

[winjim]

I've seen that, on social media, bit sadly working that day

You're not missing much. Turns out it's too windy for the Lancaster so they're sending a Typhoon instead.

 

[Alan O]

This has got to be my favourite one so far:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/September2007.htm

How much money was p***ed up the wall on that project? It beggars belief.

The signs on that one are a bit silly, but I have to note a couple of points...

The total distance is said to be 380 yards, so it's clearly been photographed from a distance with a telephoto lens to compress the perspective and enhance the apparent silliness.

Blue "Cyclists dismount" signs are only informational/advisory, and so the "requires seven dismounts" claim is not actually correct.

 

[winjim]

The signs on that one are a bit silly, but I have to note a couple of points...

The total distance is said to be 380 yards, so it's clearly been photographed from a distance with a telephoto lens to compress the perspective and enhance the apparent silliness.

Blue "Cyclists dismount" signs are only informational/advisory, and so the "requires seven dismounts" claim is not actually correct.

Also note from the linked cyclestreets.net page

Many of the dismount signs have been removed and the slow down sections and markings re-tarmacked so they don't exist anymore.​

 

[nickyboy]

When I first mooted the idea, to my wife about entering the event to run over the Bay (organised event!!), the quicksands are the first thing that she mentioned
Second is the speed of the tide, & it's nature; encirlcling due to channels, it's ability to outpace a galloping horse!

Conversely, it's not that dangerous with a guide who knows the sands
In the 1970s, Prince Philip drove a 'Carriage & 4' over, & I know someone who's driven a Land Rover over!!!

We had a (carefully) waymarked course, by the local Fishermen, & Bay Search & Rescue escorting us, in their HaggLunds

Another aspect that people forget is that the rivers enter the Bay, whether the tide's in or out!!
We were in water (anything from 1/2 inch, to crotch-deep, for well over 2 miles - from memory)

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As a local (I grew up being able to see Morecambe Bay from my bedroom window) we were always taught to be very careful as it is, indeed, very dangerous. There are a lot of quicksands, the river channels change course over the seasons. Finally, the incoming tide is something to behold....from a distance. It comes in faster than you can run on the mud. Once you're caught out by the tide there isn't much you can do about it

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

As a local (I grew up being able to see Morecambe Bay from my bedroom window) we were always taught to be very careful as it is, indeed, very dangerous. There are a lot of quicksands, the river channels change course over the seasons. Finally, the incoming tide is something to behold....from a distance. It comes in faster than you can run on the mud. Once you're caught out by the tide there isn't much you can do about it

Agreed wholeheartedly
With every word (apart from the bedroom window)

The race was/is way-marked very carefully by the local Fishermen, & escorted/over-seen by Bay Search & Rescue, with their HaggLunds