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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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Driving through the Potteries yesterday and today I thought it would be nice to have a little holiday just randomly visiting brown sign places.
What are your favourite brown sign places. |
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Not 100% sure this has a brown sign, but the Media Museum in Bradford is great, loads to see and for the kids to get involved in, handy location for a none driver like me, places to eat food you've brought with you, and it's free.
Taking kids to the Bradford Industrial Museum soon, another good one, I've been with college and really enjoyed it. |
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The one that always brings a smile to my face when I pass by is near North Weald airfield, near the M11.
It proclaims loudly.... SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER..
It's actually underground and all you can see from the surface is a humble late-50's style bungalow, which was the disguised entrance.
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"The one that always brings a smile to my face when I pass by is near North Weald airfield, near the M11.
It proclaims loudly.... SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER..
It's actually underground and all you can see from the surface is a humble late-50's style bungalow, which was the disguised entrance.
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I haven't seen that one. I will be looking out the next time I travel the M11. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Not 100% sure this has a brown sign, but the Media Museum in Bradford is great, loads to see and for the kids to get involved in, handy location for a none driver like me, places to eat food you've brought with you, and it's free.
Taking kids to the Bradford Industrial Museum soon, another good one, I've been with college and really enjoyed it."
Museums always have a brown sign. I will have to have a look next time I am in Bradford for longer than a meeting. |
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"We have a brown sign round here that says canal. Except someone scrubbed off the 'c'.
Why has a canal got a brown sign?"
There's a couple of other places of interest on the brown sign. It's not the main attraction.  |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"We have a brown sign round here that says canal. Except someone scrubbed off the 'c'.
Why has a canal got a brown sign?
There's a couple of other places of interest on the brown sign. It's not the main attraction. "
The canal museum has a brown sign here in London but I don't think I have seen any for the many canals we have. I hope I won't be disappointed on my brown sign holiday visiting your (c)anal. |
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"We have a brown sign round here that says canal. Except someone scrubbed off the 'c'.
Why has a canal got a brown sign?
There's a couple of other places of interest on the brown sign. It's not the main attraction.
The canal museum has a brown sign here in London but I don't think I have seen any for the many canals we have. I hope I won't be disappointed on my brown sign holiday visiting your (c)anal."
I snigger every time I see the sign. 
I think if you visited our (c)anal you'd like it. Especially in this weather. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"We have a brown sign round here that says canal. Except someone scrubbed off the 'c'.
Why has a canal got a brown sign?
There's a couple of other places of interest on the brown sign. It's not the main attraction.
The canal museum has a brown sign here in London but I don't think I have seen any for the many canals we have. I hope I won't be disappointed on my brown sign holiday visiting your (c)anal.
I snigger every time I see the sign.
I think if you visited our (c)anal you'd like it. Especially in this weather."
I'm assuming you're referring to (C)anal St in Manchester? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I like magna in Rotherham, Think tank in Birmingham, black country living musuem & Eurekas in Halifax.
Actually I take the kids to a variety of interactive places, from leeds/york down to wmsf  Got to love the summers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The one that always brings a smile to my face when I pass by is near North Weald airfield, near the M11.
It proclaims loudly.... SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER..
It's actually underground and all you can see from the surface is a humble late-50's style bungalow, which was the disguised entrance.
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I been there too many times where mum used to drag me there  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I find canals really interesting...."
Come to Birmingham- lots of em there- and thanks to someone else removing a "C", you can go on an 'anal ride' on the boats outside the Sealife Centre |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"When I was in the T.A. ages back,it always tickled me to see the sign "Aushfart"every couple of miles on the autobahn.It means "exit" "
You see it in train stations too - and eingang is entrance. |
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"There's a woman on R4 who has become with brown signs.
Spontaneous is purist brown signest she says."
I'm sorry lickety I've read that a couple of times and cannot get my head around what you mean! |
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In Plymouth one of the McDonalds has a brown sign, it may be why so many people take their kids there. Maybe they think it's a cultural attraction.
Here's a link to a picture of the sign on flickr, as there has to be some disbelief that this could actually happen
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3169/2385829278_fb278dc336_o.jpg |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"There's a woman on R4 who has become with brown signs.
Spontaneous is purist brown signest she says.
I'm sorry lickety I've read that a couple of times and cannot get my head around what you mean! "
That's because I was typing on the tablet, too fast, and omitted the word obsessed.
She says you're a proper, purist, brown signest if you see one and just go along spontaneously. If you plan a trip to visit brown signs it's fine just not pure brown signing. |
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"There's a woman on R4 who has become with brown signs.
Spontaneous is purist brown signest she says.
I'm sorry lickety I've read that a couple of times and cannot get my head around what you mean!
That's because I was typing on the tablet, too fast, and omitted the word obsessed.
She says you're a proper, purist, brown signest if you see one and just go along spontaneously. If you plan a trip to visit brown signs it's fine just not pure brown signing."
Well I guess that's ok if you don't have anywhere else you need to be  |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"In Plymouth one of the McDonalds has a brown sign, it may be why so many people take their kids there. Maybe they think it's a cultural attraction.
Here's a link to a picture of the sign on flickr, as there has to be some disbelief that this could actually happen
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3169/2385829278_fb278dc336_o.jpg"
How is that possible? I thought there were rules for these things. I know they have to pay for them but the area can't be so devoid of things to see that Upchucks gets a sign? |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"There's a woman on R4 who has become with brown signs.
Spontaneous is purist brown signest she says.
I'm sorry lickety I've read that a couple of times and cannot get my head around what you mean!
That's because I was typing on the tablet, too fast, and omitted the word obsessed.
She says you're a proper, purist, brown signest if you see one and just go along spontaneously. If you plan a trip to visit brown signs it's fine just not pure brown signing.
Well I guess that's ok if you don't have anywhere else you need to be "
I sometimes add time to take in brown signs. I've seen some lovely places I would never have added to my list of things to do if I was just planning to visit things. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"In Plymouth one of the McDonalds has a brown sign, it may be why so many people take their kids there. Maybe they think it's a cultural attraction.
Here's a link to a picture of the sign on flickr, as there has to be some disbelief that this could actually happen
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3169/2385829278_fb278dc336_o.jpg
How is that possible? I thought there were rules for these things. I know they have to pay for them but the area can't be so devoid of things to see that Upchucks gets a sign? "
HaHa not entirely sure, it made the local papers and to be honest I'm not sure if it remains. If you were to climb the stairs on the left you would find a very well preserved Palmerston fort which is open to the public on certain days and run by English Heritage, follow the road for 10 minutes and you're on Dartmoor national park, maybe McDonalds just though, well all the other signs are brown... |
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