FOC-U Bike Picture Challenge

[red98]

nice one deadeye......is it a county boundry though  :rolleyes ............5 miles from suspension bridge and my bikes at home...bugger.......will try tonight but might be too late  :\ ...good local one for you deadeye,cant answer your own challenge though  :lol

[fazersharp]

Wo wo wo  go back a bit Im sure the intent was counties ie Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire and not the sign down the road between city and county

[Dead Eye]

This is a county border between Bristol County and South Gloucestershire County - they are two distinct counties but the border is within the confines of Bristol CITY

Pretty sure its valid... but looks like its to be put to a vote...

Also, literally about 200 yards up the road is the matching South Gloucestershire County signpost but Google for some reason has gotten that close... http://goo.gl/maps/6RW6P

[richfzs]

That's what I learnt today - Bristol is unusual (unique?) in being a county as well as city.

Gets my vote...

[Dead Eye]

Yup - it was formed after Avon County was disbanded over a decade ago

[richfzs]

Over a decade ago? Bristol was granted County status in 1373....

[red98]

you got my vote deadeye for doing your homework  ....and for keeping everyone busy checking it until i sneak out tonight and get the bridge shot  :lol

[Dead Eye]

Yeah... I'm not entirely sure how that worked when Avon was around if I'm honest. Avon as a county was abolished in 1996

[richfzs]

According to Wikipedia (so it must be right, eh?) bristol County is a ceremonial one (presumably as opposed to an administrative one) so could happily exist alongside Avon/Somerset /Glos...?

[Dead Eye]

Sounds about right - I think it has Administrative clout now though? In any case, it was a County border hahaha

Should have taken a photo of the South Glos sign

[Doubleclix]

Ah good old Wikipedia. I once read that Steven Seagull had been murdered by his best friend with an axe a while ago but oddly enough he's brought out a film or two since >

[richfzs]

With the state of his acting, would it make any difference if he was dead?

[red98]

Sounds about right - I think it has Administrative clout now though? In any case, it was a County border hahaha

Should have taken a photo of the South Glos sign

had a picture ready on my phone "royal county of berkshire" no less...posh foccers round here  :lol

[nick crisp]

Rats! Passed 2 Gloucestershire ones today but thought someone's bound to have beaten me to it by the time I get home, so didn't stop for photies.  :\

[Skippernick]

It gets really complicated when you get to Bath, its a city and has its own county made for it as well, BANES, Bath and North East Somerset.

[DryRob]

Here's mine touching the Humber Bridge

Next challenge (keeping with bridges):
Your bike near a rail bridge

[DryRob]

Here's mine touching the Humber Bridge

Next challenge (keeping with bridges):
your bike near a rail bridge

[Skippernick]

Here's mine touching the Humber Bridge

Next challenge (keeping with bridges):
Your bike near a rail bridge

Do Suzuki's count in this thread.  :lol

[Dead Eye]

Nice work DryRob - didn't expect that completed so quickly and well done for the literally touching it haha

[Grahamm]

For some reason people like destroying this sign post :\ Google Street View can back me up http://goo.gl/maps/uOeap

Lol! I was just wondering if the "City and County of Bristol" sign was still in place next to Ashton Gate.

The Council deliberately put of them up in 1974 when Bristol's Charter (defining it as a County) was withdrawn, one year after we'd celebrated 600 years of being a City and a County