please empty your brain below
A fine report of a road that was part of my news patch for 15 years - another great read.

Waterhouse | 31.12.18 - 8:44 a.m. | #

I love a good DG road post! Excellent work. Happy new year from the West Country.

Mike Newman | Homepage | 31.12.18 - 9:25 a.m. | #

On the first picture I'm not sure why one direction has a black border and the other is blue. Happy new year also from the West country.

kev | 31.12.18 - 10:35 a.m. | #

I managed to read the whole article, including looking at the maps, and getting fascinated by the history, and other aspects, without properly realising exactly why this particular road had been chosen. It was only on reading the last sentence "There isn't an A2019...", that the reason for the choice leapt out at me.

It may be an ageing thing...

Malcolm | 31.12.18 - 10:55 a.m. | #

I have family who live just off the road. At the parade of shops just before the school there is a shop that was open on Christmas Day.

It had one of the finest selections of brooms for sale outside that I have ever seen. Cheap as chips as well.

So, in the future, if you are ever in dire need of a broom on Christmas Day you know where to go.

Chris | 31.12.18 - 11:12 a.m. | #

Kev - I just had to look this up, but blue-bordered signs were used for local destinations (and black for non-local). They were depreciated in 1994, but it seems plenty remain where there hasn't been a need to replace them.

martin | 31.12.18 - 11:50 a.m. | #

#kev - Mini roundabout signs are often incorrect too. Fitted upside down. It should look like a smiley face not line at the top.

scrumpy | 31.12.18 - 11:59 a.m. | #

Ooh, thanks for that Scrumpy - I shall now look out for upside-down roundabout signs!! I had no idea there was a right and wrong way!

It's this kind of quirky post that keeps me coming back! What a super way to end another fantastic year of blogging.
Thank you so much for all your posts this year DG, and here's to many more in 2019.
A very happy new year to you.

Cornish Cockney | 31.12.18 - 12:58 p.m. | #

Blue borders for local destinations are alledgedly still used in Devon. There also seems to be confusion over whether local destinations reached via primary routes should be on green or white.

kev | 31.12.18 - 1:42 p.m. | #

To be fair to Mick Jagger, he donated a million pounds to his old school to enable the building of a theatre/ arts centre, or so I was told by one of the staff.

Keith | 31.12.18 - 1:52 p.m. | #

There is a B2019 in Sevenoaks though.

greatkingrat | 31.12.18 - 1:58 p.m. | #

Don't believe it!!
Exactly the same as Malcolm!!!

Happy New Year

MikeK | 31.12.18 - 2:25 p.m. | #

Hope you have a successful 2019

(good news this is my last comment here!)

Sir Biton | 31.12.18 - 3:07 p.m. | #

If you’re feeling more adventurous there is a D2019 in Aigueperse, France.

Sprout Eater | 31.12.18 - 4:00 p.m. | #

>>The Shepherds takeaway has a poster outside declaring that its 18 inch pizzas are the biggest in town, whereas I'd have thought all 18 inch pizzas were the same size.

But its 18" pizzas will be bigger than 12 or 10" pizzas hence their claim is, on the face of it, entirely reasonable (providing there are no other 18" sellers of course) :)

Agent X | 31.12.18 - 7:48 p.m. | #

Another interesting post,DG. A Happy and Peaceful New Year to you and all your readers.🎉🍾🎉

Jo W | 31.12.18 - 8:38 p.m. | #

Typically marvellous suburban travelogue, DG – into the heart of Dartford.

Which inspires me to learn that A, B and M route numbers on UK traffic signs are supposed to have a separation of exactly 1 stroke width between the letter and the number, being one quarter of the font’s x-height and two-fifths of the width of an ordinary space (“A 2018”). In contrast, the Department for Transport and its devolved counterparts have seen fit to advise that any abbreviated reference to £25 million pounds should be displayed as “£25 m”, with a mere one-fifth space before the “m”. (Traffic Signs Manual, chapter 7, pp. 8–11.; cf. p. 111f.) Quite why such an amount would be referred to on a traffic sign is left unexplained. And the rules for aligning columns of distances turn out to be surprisingly complicated (p. 27), consequent on every digit having a different width (p. 147).

Happy new year.

Rich G | Homepage | 31.12.18 - 9:10 p.m. | #

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Rich G. Thank you. You know it makes sense. Happy New Year!!

scrumpy | 31.12.18 - 10:00 p.m. | #

My old school! By the way, take any of those “genuine footpaths” and you’ll soon find you’re not the only single man out for a walk in the woods...

Tintinhaddock | 01.01.19 - 8:23 p.m. | #











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