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Signposts to a city in the middle of another city
Inspired by the "The North?..." thread.
Don't you find it odd that you can be driving along a minor A road or something in London and see a sign reading "Elephant and Castle, Brixton...Portsmouth". Or say, Manchester with a sign like "MEN Car Park...Glasgow...".
I get this if you are on a major A road that is actually heading in that direction but it appears to me sometimes these sings are random and even though you COULD get to glasgow by heading in that direction you'll see another sign coming from a different direction, heading the other way, pointing to that same city.
So basically these signs are just telling you to leave the city in every direction and eventually you'll end up in another one.
yeh?
I'm with you
There are signposts to Portsmouth all over Clapham and I have no idea why.
Yeah noticed that outside Clapham north station
was a bit...:?
The A3 was the main road
from Portsmouth to London hence seeing signs of Portsmouth in Clapham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3_road
cool thread
one of those threads that deserved so much more...
note to self: friday afernoons can be brutal.
think I prefer the random dropping of actual places to
signs pointing to "The North"
nah
i like to think if you follow sings to 'THE NORTH' you'd eventually end up in spitzbergen or some artic place
This thread has reminded me
of the time I saw Manchester's very own rave-up version of Led Zeppelin THE MUSIC play their first southern show in Kingston-upon-Thames because they said "we're not playing fockin' London!" and the guitarist wore a t-shirt saying THE NORTH on it.
Lads.
Actually they were from just up the canal in Leeds weren't they
Oops.
makes sense to me
people dont always know that the A4673 leads to a certain city but if they know it heads to one in their general direction they can follow it.