Recycling thought

[geoff]

on a slightly different note

one for Dave to stick in his pipe and smoke (so to speak ...)

[The Medway Handyman]

[<me9]

Cleveland (before its abolition), with its nuclear power station at Hartlepool.

[Frank Erskine]

Then Darlington labelled itself as a 'quiet town', so it became known as 'noisy city'.

[Andy Champ]

claims to be the original)

and there's one in High Wycombe that Wikipedia doesn't know about.

I'd have put Bracknell well up the list, but the best it can manage is a chain of a big one and two little ones O.. and Twin Bridges, which is one-and-a-half joined up.

Andy

[Rod]

Nothing magic about High Wycombe's mess. Just five roundabouts in close proximity :-)

[geoff]

Tis, too

You seem to have missed the fact that HH is only a few miles down the road - what self respecting roundabout would bother travelling further (except in Telford - where the tracing paper slipped during the design stage)

[geoff]

In message , Andy Hall writes

JUst thinking about it, it's a bit of a joke claiming to be a nuclear free zone when we have Northwood 5 miles down the road (British command centre in the event of a nuclear war - where "the button" is, for those who don't know)

Watford would be one of the first places to be targeted

[The Medway Handyman]

No bad thing then, nuclear war :-)

[geoff]

Of course, Chatham dockyards would be next

[somebody]

Oi! Don't forget ours!

Can't say I'm proud of it though. It was built when the town had the unbelievable situation of having a chief "borough highways engineer" who didn't actually own a driving licence.

Someone

[Bob Eager]

Oi! I work in one of them sometimes! ((not still a dockyard, mind, and actually it's the old naval base)

[Frank Erskine]

Plenty of work for TMH Dave then!

[The Medway Handyman]

As I said, no bad thing then :-)

Mass Chav destruction!

[The Medway Handyman]

Watford? I thought you were in Leeds or somewhere?

What services woild they be Geoff?

[Steve Firth]

Not a roundabout, but there's the roundabout + flyover at Chelmsford that rumour had it was designed to enable the chief highways engineer to get to his home in Galleywood more easily. There didn't seem any other explanation for where it was and the fact it was single lane/tidal.

[geoff]

You mean a museum

still a danger - the invading armies could trip over the ropes

[geoff]

pcbs and fans when they repair boilers

significantly more environmentally friendly than throwing them away, and much cheaper too

as in

excuse the interface, there's a problem ATM

[Frank Erskine]

Full of discharged se(a)men?

:-)

[Frank Erskine]

I didn't think that people south of Watford knew about Leeds or anything like that...