Warning Ducks, and other strange roadsign?

[Gloster]

To indicate the leadership of the teachers and the fire to spread light out in the world in the young. What would be the modern equivalent?

 

[zwk500]

like that yes, but the plate underneat said ‘wild fowl’ instead.

Fowl being a lesser used word for various kinds of birds (usually ones you eat), Guinea Fowl being an obvious example.

Does anyone remember the old road signs that are supposedly pre 1970s. Bizarrely it appears that a picture of a old torch is used to represent a school.

1960s I believe, the pre-Worboys report. There's an interesting article on it here: https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/war-worboys

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Good condition examples of these vintage UK road signs seem to command quite hefty prices on the likes of Ebay. Certainly a lot more than cast iron railway bridge plates!

 

[Calthrop]

On the Isle of Wight there are signs warning of squirrels, although I think that the ones with images are unofficial.

This concerns a particularly treasured feature of the Island -- the native British red squirrel, still flourishing there: reckoned a population of some 3,000 of them on the Island -- the Solent and Spithead having kept out the introduced alien grey squirrel, which has otherwise "swept the board" in the south of Great Britain, displacing the -- generally found more attractive -- red species. (I've observed a particular profusion of "watch out for squirrels" signs -- some definitely unofficial -- in Havenstreet village.)

In various parts of the opposite end of England, red squirrels hang on, though beleaguered by the advancing greys. Have noticed road signs in various spots in the part of Cumbria which used to be Westmorland: intended to alert motorists to red squirrels' being around, and to request them to try not to run them over. One such which I observed, read "Caution -- red squirrels": thought that wording perhaps a little unfortunate -- visitors not au fait with Britain's squirrel situation, might misinterpret such a sign along lines of "they can be vicious little brutes -- beware !"

 

[Gloster]

This concerns a particularly treasured feature of the Island -- the native British red squirrel, still flourishing there: reckoned a population of some 3,000 of them on the Island -- the Solent and Spithead having kept out the introduced alien grey squirrel, which has otherwise "swept the board" in the south of Great Britain, displacing the -- generally found more attractive -- red species. (I've observed a particular profusion of "watch out for squirrels" signs -- some definitely unofficial -- in Havenstreet village.)

In various parts of the opposite end of England, red squirrels hang on, though beleaguered by the advancing greys. Have noticed road signs in various spots in the part of Cumbria which used to be Westmorland: intended to alert motorists to red squirrels' being around, and to request them to try not to run them over. One such which I observed, read "Caution -- red squirrels": thought that wording perhaps a little unfortunate -- visitors not au fait with Britain's squirrel situation, might misinterpret such a sign along lines of "they can be vicious little brutes -- beware !"

Although they are nice to look at (I frequently see them bouncing around in the tree outside my office window), they are vicious and destructive little brutes with very sharp teeth that they need to use frequently. They really are tree rats with good PR.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Bizarrely it appears that a picture of a old torch is used to represent a school.

It's the Beacon of Learning.

 

[GusB]

i don’t drive and have never read the highway code

You don't have to be a driver in order to familiarise yourself with the highway code.

 

[Bread & cheese]

Some hedgehog signs went up locally last year.

Picture shows a road sign. A red triangle contains the outline of a hedgehog. Lettering underneath reads: For 250 yds. The triangle and the lettering are both against a yellow background. The sign is attached to a lamppost in a suburban street.

 

[Falcon1200]

I saw two warning roadsigns with ducks on them when i was in milton keynes yesterday, one had a plate stating ‘wild fowl’ underneath it. What are these for?

There is one on a road near me, because close by there is a loch on which swans nest, and they sometimes go wandering about!

 

[randyrippley]

Lancaster University has Duck warning signs on its entrance road due to ducks being quite common on campus.

I saw a frog sign in the Lake District.

Around here it's mainly the more common Deer sign.

The Lancaster University signs date from 1977, probably earlier.



The Lake District "frog" signs are usually warnings about the endangered natterjack toad

 

[MotCO]

This sign always amuses me - I have visions of rolls crossing the road ahead!



(Image shows a burger bar road sign saying 'Breakfast rolls ahead'. It is on the A22 near Newchapel)

 

[Shimbleshanks]

This one on the Menai Bridge to Anglesey always tickled me - back in the 1970s the sign was cast iron and in English only; glad to see it's been perpertuated into the modern, bilingual era

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[32475]

A couple more old examples……

 

[Calthrop]

Although they are nice to look at (I frequently see them bouncing around in the tree outside my office window), they are vicious and destructive little brutes with very sharp teeth that they need to use frequently. They really are tree rats with good PR.

Well, I love 'em, "whatever". Perhaps I've been brainwashed by exposure in childhood, to the works of Beatrix Potter; her character the foolish and impertinent -- but still endearing -- Squirrel Nutkin, and all his chums, are "proper" British red squirrels. The grey sort were only at the start of their career of conquest, and had made little headway therein, when the book was published in 1903 ...

 

[jon0844]

To indicate the leadership of the teachers and the fire to spread light out in the world in the young. What would be the modern equivalent?

If this was an American forum, they'd probably show an AR-15.

 

[yorksrob]

Lancaster University has Duck warning signs on its entrance road due to ducks being quite common on campus.

They had peacocks there as well once upon a time.

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They have been around for years. Think its a generic sign warning of ducks, geese, swans and albatrosses. And pterodactyls in Milton Keynes

Aren't they concrete pterodactyls in Milton Keynes ?

 

[Ken H]

On the road out of Atherstone going towards Colesill there was a warning triangle warning sign with nk image. Underneath there was a plate saying Pheasants.
First someone painted out the 'h', then someone stuck a picture of a roast pheasant in the middle of the triangle. Hope its still there.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Aren't they concrete pterodactyls in Milton Keynes ?

Thought it was concrete cows in Milton Keynes, and there's definitely an official warning sign for 'Cattle'.

 

[zwk500]

Thought it was concrete cows in Milton Keynes, and there's definitely an official warning sign for 'Cattle'.

Concrete cows are indeed an MK thing, although they're not actually concrete AIUI. They used to be in the city centre, but they've since been moved to a park further out (right next to the WCML, look to the left if you're on a Southbound slow line train shortly after Wolverton).

 

[341o2]

You don't have to be a driver in order to familiarise yourself with the highway code.

Every road user should be familiar with the sections of the Highway Code which are relevant to their form of transport

 

[edwin_m]

Have noticed road signs in various spots in the part of Cumbria which used to be Westmorland: intended to alert motorists to red squirrels' being around, and to request them to try not to run them over.

Presumably drivers should slow down and check the colour of the squirrel before deciding whether to run it over or not. Though going by the (grey) ones round here, it will be long gone by then.

 

[D6130]

Talking of different signs, I saw this earlier this week.

Check your trouser legs Guys!

 

[Tetchytyke]

I love this sign near me, which is two red triangle warning signs on top of each other: one warning of a ford, one showing a picture of a duck. Which kinda makes sense really!

We also have wild goats here, and there’s a sign on the coast road with an exclamation mark in a red warning triangle with “goats” underneath.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Not really. It’s to warn of migratory toads/frogs crossing so drivers should proceed with caution.

Well worth it. One of my first really scary driving experiences after I’d passed my test was losing control of an ‘HA’ Vauxhall Viva on a ‘squashed frog slick’ on a wet hill, at night. (Mind you, HAs were pretty skittish at the best of times.)

 

[Lloyds siding]

Well worth it. One of my first really scary driving experiences after I’d passed my test was losing control of an ‘HA’ Vauxhall Viva on a ‘squashed frog slick’ on a wet hill, at night. (Mind you, HAs we’re pretty skittish at the best of times.)

I remember coming out of the bar at Stirling University to find that all that year's froglets had decided to emerge out of the lakes, ponds, etc. and migrate to somewhere else. It was impossible to walk along the paths or grass without squashing frogs in their hundreds.

 

[High Dyke]

Seen this sign at the entrance to a housing development.


Image: road sign saying "SLOW free range children"

 

[Ken H]

Seen this sign at the entrance to a housing development.

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Image: road sign saying "SLOW free range children"

There is one of those by a farm at Ais Gill just before a rail overbridge

 

[Kite159]

An unusual sign I saw a couple weeks ago when on the buses was a sign prohibiting (I presume) horse & carts near the A1014 roundabout with London Gateway docke in the Stanford Le Hope area. I've attached a link of Google Streetview.

The Sorrells, Stanford Le Hope:

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[Ediswan]

An unusual sign I saw a couple weeks ago when on the buses was a sign prohibiting (I presume) horse & carts near the A1014 roundabout with London Gateway docke in the Stanford Le Hope area. I've attached a link of Google Streetview.

In that situation, I believe those signs are intended to discourage trap racing on the public highway.

 

[SargeNpton]

This on the A14 near Huntingdon must be a contender for the most prohibition signs on a single post...