General Chat

When I see Skip Hire I only wish I could, but the knees won't take it nowdays.

Has anyone mentioned Pishill in Oxfordshire? When I was younger we used to pass through Thanington Without on the way to Canterbury. We reckoned it was referring to the streetlights. Richard

Asked my Son to fill in some I could not remember here goes: Carnew in Wicklow Kill Ma Cow in Waterford Hospital in Limerick Burn Foot in County Donegal Trim in County Meath Kill Cock in County Kildare Rush in County Dublin Schull (Pronounced SKULL) in Cork Bally Bunion (Ouch!) in County Kerry Name of a House in County Dublin Analands (On What???) There is a sign in County Wexford we often pass it states: "SEAN FLOOD, WATER PUMPS" "MATURE MANURE, GUARANTEED IRISH, ALSO SUPPLIED IN BAGS " ??? seen in County Wicklow At an Undertaker's in County Dublin there are double gates Stating in very large letters "KEEP CLEAR, EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY" Christine told you they have some strange ones here. LOL> Pat X

Dave, don't know how I forgot that one, my sister-in-law comes from there!! Right beside St Oswald's church. Christine

Don't know Pat, found a few strange ones in England Dirty Gutter, Staffordshire Pity Me, Durham Nasty, Herefordshire Lower Down, Shropshire My personal favourite...Booze, Yorkshire Could live there quite happily LOL Christine

Christine I think the Scots and Irish are gonna win this one with the Welsh coming in at a close third LOL> Maybe its because i'm used to the English ones more. Pat x

There's a place in Aberdeenshire called Lost. They've stopped putting up road signs for it as they kept getting pinched! Here's a few more Scottish ones Tongue, we've got quite a few places called that! Drunkendub, Angus Fattahead, Aberdeenshire Duffus, Morayshire Oldwhat, Aberdeenshire Teasses in Fife Windy Yet, Ayrshire Rest and Be Thankful, Argyll and Bute Christine

There are some funny names here. A place called GOREY which always reminds me of a Hammer Horror movie, my husband was so used to the name he couldnt understand why I laughed so much at first. When I first saw a place called Harold's Cross I used to annoy him by saying wonder who with? Then there is Inch Roundwood Longwood Killmacud (KILL MA CUD) Killamuck (Kill A Muck) Killtiernan (Kill Tiernan) Stepaside (Step A Side) Stillorgan (Still Organ) Hollywood Boghall Sallynoggin Can't think of more at the moment but I am sure there is. Pat x

In Bristol there is a Pudding Pie Lane and Catbrain Hill Also in Gloucestershire there is Upper Cam and Lower Cam, and to get from Upper to Lower you go uphill. I seem to remember seeing a signpost with both Scotland and Ireland on it.

David - oh, no, you mean I got it wrong all this time, it wasnt Boggart Hole Clough but Boggart OLD Clough, oh God you have ruined my childhood memories, no wonder everyone got annoyed with me for laughing, they must have thought I was mental! I was born in Blackley, so know about that pronunciation. We moved to Darwen in Lancs and then to Scotland. On my first day at new school in Scotland I was surrounded by kids wanting to know what Australia was like.

nudge Christine

Actually, when I was in North Wales I suddenly realised that the Welsh for Slow Down is very similar to the noise I make when I find something which impedes my speedy progress along the Queen's Highways.

My parents live near a road called Cleveland, and as a child I used to call it Cleverland :-) Karen

This type of thread is the bee's knees. A long time ago while in Little Aden, I learnt that the next village was called Barefuqum, out of bounds to all military, but an interesting name. In Japan there is Fukuoka and Fukutu, wonderful names, but best of all somewhere in Kent on a road joining M2 and M20, I have seen signs for "No Ucking U-turns" gawd only knows what that means, Derek in France

she didn't have what i had jim.ha ha.send her my love when you see her((((((((:

Near Hereford, there is a sign to Ruckhall which is often defaced (using a small amount of white paint).

As a child used to go regularly to a place called Boggart Hole Clough in Manchester. Always made ME laugh, anyway.

A few years ago we stayed in a place in Skye called Peiness. My husband got some funny looks asking directions to (as he pronounced it) PENIS ! Apparently it's pronounced PINESS. Another that makes me laugh (shouldn't really) is the sign for a crematorium here in Edinburgh, which has right next to it another for a Body Repair Shop! Christine

My fave was Lower Piddle ..... By the way re Splott goes back at least as far as the 15th century and consisted mainly of two farms, called the Upper and Lower Splott, situate between Roath Village and the sea. Shirley Bassey was born there (but a bit later) ... I used to live near the Hog's Back - I didn't know he'd been away. Annie

MY HUBBIE AND I USED TO LIVE JUST OUTSIDE OF DEAL IN KENT AND WHEN WE DROVE INTO WORK WE USED TO PASS A SIGNPOST SAYING HAM ONE WAY AND SANDWICH THE OTHER...