Quirky signs and notices

Sorry grans

One that makes me smile is road marking on a major roundabout in Nottingham, says 'A 52 GRAN' (short for grantham) can imagine dgc thinking it's directions to grants house.

There was a poster in Hong Kong which said "Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation - Enquiries and Complaints Hotline 28351565"

Nellie

Look at this rather ambiguous inscription on this water fountain in the lovely village of Low Bradfield just west of Sheffield. DD was married in the village hall here on the edge of this cricket field. Several of the guest were amused by this .

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Anno The urinal one was reported to me by a reliable observer. The tiny notice I did meet for myself, and almost fell off the seat laughing.

Some years ago, I think it was in Leicestershire, a thoughtful farmer put a handwritten sign up in a country lane which read, "MUD". A few days later, a little further down the lane, some wag put a sign which read, "SHOWADDYWADDY". Someone else followed a little further down with "SWEET" and then everyone got carried away until all the groups of the 70s featured! Made me laugh, anyway.

Elegran, your sources of research are suspicious.

Graffiti above the urinals in a public lavatory in Edinburgh about 1960 - "The future of Scotland is in your hands"

A very small one, in a tiny font, fixed near the foot of the door in a loo - "If you can read this, you are now sitting leaning forward at an angle of 85 degrees"

"Cats eyes removed" always made me wince.

Like the signs asking if you need a translator...

Sign advertising Adult Literacy course:

'Are you unable to read and write?'

Seen in railway museum.
District Railway Notice.
In the absence of the Ladies Waiting Room Attendant the Station Inspector is authorised to look in occasionally to see that no improper us
e is made of this Room.

My favourite was at a village just outside Aberfeldy in Scotland 'Dull Highland Adventure Safaris.' I think the company is now known as 'Highland Safaris'.
Here's a newspaper article announcing that the village of Dull has been twinned with the Oregon town of 'Boring.'

I saw one in Mallaig which said ;The ground is not the bin'

I drive regularly through some local long term road works. The signs restrict the speed to 40mph stating that cameras record average speeds. Near the end of the long stretch of lane closure there is another notice which reads 'Cameras not in use'. Cheeky!

Above the rubbish bin in Epsom Hospital - Put your rubbish in the bin. Do you think it would make any difference to those not likely to?

They also had a wall with a flower (or was it a butterfly) for each person who had died there. I didn't find it very encouraging!

By the M62 - Do not throw stones at this sign.

A sign near where I live reads '' Secret Nuclear Bunker'' .

Seen in Auckland at the time of the horse meat scandal:

"NEW HORSE TAKEAWAY"
Customer Parking

At the entrance to Albert Dock in Liverpool, back in the days when it was a proper dock, there was a sign:

COMMIT NO NUISANCE.

Well they say "An English mans home is his castle". In our village there is a house which has been undergoing renovations for several years, on the wall there is a plaque which reads

The inner wall of the castle is dangerous, it is closed to the public during repairs.

It is fun watching passers by craning their necks to read it

At the tennis courts located next to the crematorium there used to be a notice saying "Ashes wanted".