Wednesday, August 12, 2020

A funny old sign

NO TIPPING at the Stockport Pyramid.


While having a wander around the Stockport Pyramid I noticed a funny sign near the gates - it must've been up for years as it had the old Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council logo on it.

Typo on a very old Stockport Council sign at the Pyramid
NO TIPPNG

The other NO TIPPING sign on the opposite side of the driveway was spelt correctly.

NO TIPPING sign at the Stockport Pyramid
NO TIPPING

Both signs are likely to be almost 30 years old. That's a long time for a typo like that to be hidden in plain sight!

The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport was founded in 1974 and the Stockport Pyramid was completed in 1992 after five years work.

Sadly traces of the old Metropolitan Borough of Stockport logo are becoming few and far between. There was one on an old noticeboard on Adswood Road in Cheadle Hulme until it was destroyed in a road traffic accident last year!

Old Metropolitan Borough of Stockport sign on Adswood Road in Cheadle Hulme. July 2016
  
Old Metropolitan Borough of Stockport sign on Adswood Road in Cheadle Hulme. February 2019

Thanks to Natalie Ainscough for letting me know about this sign with the old logo on at Woodford Recreation Ground.

Old Metropolitan Borough of Stockport sign at Woodford Recreation Ground

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