Anglophile Friday - England Signs

I find English signs fascinating. Not that I always understand them, mind you. But there is such variety and they're often pretty and/or unusual.

The middle one, in the photo above, was on the side of the Bull Inn in West Tanfield, North Yorkshire. The message: "Very Polite Notice: No Children Except when Dining in the Restaurant, Supervised by Parents...Please Book to Avoid Disappointment"

And I still can't find my photo of the sign that read, 'Dogs and well-behaved children are welcome.'

Top Row: Gas Station somewhere, I think it was outside York; Dorstone: Dorstone Church - No Through Road; Road Sign; Pandy Inn, Dorstone, 'Twelfth Century Free House'; The Kilburn 'White Horse';

Middle Row: George & Dragon Inn, Much Wenlock; Bull Inn, West Tanfield; Pitt Farm, Dorstone

Bottom Row: Road Sign: Hereford/Letton; 'Today's Homemade Specials,' The Anchor, Cambridge; Roundabout Sign, Ironbridge; White Horse, again, east of Thirk in North Yorkshire

 

Roundabout Sign outside York

There are roundabouts with several 'spokes'

There are a couple things I'd like to say here, as an American, regarding England's road signs: 

First, it doesn't help that many of the road signs are not at the intersection of two (or more) roads, but on the sides of buildings and not necessarily in prominent locations.

Also, a road might be named one thing in one place and given another name on a different section of the same road. For example, a certain road in Cirencester is named Queens Lane, Lewis Lane, London Road, Burford Road, or A429, depending upon what small section of road you happen to find yourself. It may also be part of a ring road that goes around the whole city, but I'm not sure of that in this case.

And then there's the problem of trying to interpret road signs.  I utterly failed the following England road sign quiz. First is the quiz, followed by my answers, followed by what those signs are actually supposed to mean.

So now I'm wondering why it is that I love British humor, watch British TV shows almost exclusively, and get their jokes, because I obviously don't get their road signs!

By the way, when my daughter and I were in Yorkshire, we avoided driving on a certain road in Askrigg because it was marked with the #10 sign. (see below)

What I learned? That it's probably a good idea to learn the road signs before visiting a different country.

My Answers:

1. Don't Blue

2.Yield to Fire Hydrant

3. Go Up

4. Yield to a Tunnel or a Tomb

5. Don't Red

6. Yield to the Vacuum Cleaner

7. Go 30 MPH

8. Yield to the Tuning Fork

9. Don't Stop the Children

10. Don't White

11. Don't Make a U Turn

12. Yield to the Windsock

13. Evel Knievel Event

14. Yield to Cars Going off a Cliff

15. Roundabout

16. Yield to the Genie

17. Double Don't Blue

18. Don't go 30 MPH

19. Go 40 MPH

20. Yield to the Bumps

or to the domed buildings

or to Hercule Poirot

Well, I was right on a couple of them.

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Okay, now it's YOUR TURN

TAKE THE QUIZ FIRST

THEN YOU CAN LOOK AT THE ANSWERS.

C'MON, NO CHEATING!!

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So how did you do?

P.S. I hope my British friends realize that all this silliness is meant in good fun. :-)

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