Town and village signs.

[weltweit]

When you arrive somewhere in France, a town or village, you are greeted with a simple sign, and when you leave you are presented with the same sign with a line though it. Simple and effective.

Travelling around Britain there is none of the simple utility. In fact it seems as if the signs have not been replaced after world war two because there is usually nothing to indicate that you have arrived at someplace or other.

I want signs!

 

[weltweit]

This is the sort of thing I want a lot more of:

 

[Dillinger4]

 

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[DotCommunist]

Northampton has a welcoming sign which boasts 'Rose of the Shires'

Corby just says 'Welcome to Corby'

Pretty much everywhere in the UK has them signs on the main arterial routes in to the town. If you are slying in via some b8765439725 route that lead through an industrial estate then you might not get a sign

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[8115]

Are you local? We'll have no trouble here!

 

[SpookyFrank]

'A European Town' how delightfully vague. Presumably it used to say 'An English Town' but the UK tourist board convinced them to change it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

When you arrive somewhere in France, a town or village, you are greeted with a simple sign, and when you leave you are presented with the same sign with a line though it. Simple and effective.

French street name signs are shit though, they're always high up and they're too small to read. Something you'd think it would be hard to get wrong, and yet the French manage it.

 

[twentythreedom]

 

[weltweit]

.. If you are slying in via some b8765439725 route that lead through an industrial estate then you might not get a sign

But I usually am arriving in a village on a B road and want to know I have arrived!!

 

[weltweit]

French street name signs are shit though, they're always high up and they're too small to read. Something you'd think it would be hard to get wrong, and yet the French manage it.

I like French signs, they tell you when you arrive and when you leave .... seems neat and logical to me!

 

[DotCommunist]

But I usually am arriving in a village on a B road and want to know I have arrived!!

Perhaps you should petition the parish council and demand that everywhere Weiltweit goes on his motorised bicycle is clearly signposted. After all it is only right that when a man approaches Cold Ashton or Upper Slaughter he should know where he is (I'm not making those village names up either)

 

[weepiper]

Here is the village where I went to primary school's sign for your delectation weltweit

Most wee villages round here have them.

 

[weltweit]

... Most wee villages round here have them.

Quite right too!!

 

[weltweit]

Perhaps you should petition the parish council and demand that everywhere Weiltweit goes on his motorised bicycle is clearly signposted. After all it is only right that when a man approaches Cold Ashton or Upper Slaughter he should know where he is (I'm not making those village names up either)

I have stopped riding my motorised bicycle these days - but clear signs would be most appreciated!

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I've never been to a town or village in the UK that didn't have these signs you fruitloop

 

[wiskey]

When you arrive somewhere in France, a town or village, you are greeted with a simple sign, and when you leave you are presented with the same sign with a line though it. Simple and effective.

The villages around Malmesbury in Wiltshire have exactly these signs. You go in and get welcomed, as you leave you pass the same sign with a red line through it.

 

[weltweit]

The villages around Malmesbury in Wiltshire have exactly these signs. You go in and get welcomed, as you leave you pass the same sign with a red line through it.

Never been to Malmesbury, but I think we should adopt that system everywhere ..

Malmesbury, there is a place that knows how to do things!

 

[pogofish]

Asking for it!

 

[Fez909]

 

[weltweit]

It is about clearly knowing where you are when you are driving away from home. Where you live you know when you are in Nether Wallop or Lesser Wallingsbury but when you are away from home sometimes it is hard to know if you have reached the town after which you have to turn left onto B4381 or if you have further to go.

Navigating B roads in France it is easy to track your progress through village after village because their signs clearly tell you. That is what I want from Britain. Perhaps sat-nav generation folks don't care so much but not everyone has spunked £200 on a Garmin, perhaps their smart phone battery has given out and they are reduced to navigating by thumb or even dread to think it: map reading again.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

Cant beat this one:

Although the replaced the classic old ones fairly recently and I think there's a fourth twin town now as well...

The French ones serve to indicate a speed limit as well don't they? Iirc that's why there's a leaving one? Places in Denmark tend to do the same thing iirc.

 

[tombowler]

in cz the town sign means 50km/h unless a lower speed or higher speed is shown, the leaving town one with the red line means end of 50/kmh
The town near me had its sign adjusted last month so it read (translation) minsek under the fart

 

[machine cat]

I always cringe when I see this

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

The villages around Malmesbury in Wiltshire have exactly these signs. You go in and get welcomed, as you leave you pass the same sign with a red line through it.

That's because everywhere does

 

[wiskey]

That's because everywhere does

I haven't been everywhere yet

 

[toblerone3]