How do you know when you're returning home?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Thought I'd start a thread for this seen as we were getting into it a bit on the joke Hull rebrand thread. 

As I said on there, people in Hull feel like they are home after a while away from the city when they see the Humber Bridge. I was wondering whether in other places there are really iconic things for the locals as well that tell them they are returning home?

[GUBRATS]

2 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Thought I'd start a thread for this seen as we were getting into it a bit on the joke Hull rebrand thread. 

As I said on there, people in Hull feel like they are home after a while away from the city when they see the Humber Bridge. I was wondering whether in other places there are really iconic things for the locals as well that tell them they are returning home?

That house in the middle of the M62 , I know it's just about a mile till we're back in Lancashire thankfully

[Futtocks]

When I'm visiting my sister at the old family home, it's the white horse at Sutton Bank. Get to the top of that hill, and I'm on the home stretch.

Coming back from work (back when I wasn't working from home), it is crossing the North Circular. Not quite as picturesque, but a sign that I should get ready to disembark.

[Old Frightful]

Travelling back from yon side of the Pennines I start to realise I'm heading in the right direction when I can finally turn my windscreen wipers off.

[gingerjon]

27 minutes ago, Johnoco said:

By the way, there’s a bit of an urban myth about that house in the middle of the M62. 

No, it's definitely there ...

(And, yes, I know ...)

[Bearman]

When I see the Sir John Barrow Monument, Ulverston ( The Lighthouse on Hoad Hill, aka the pepperpot or just the hoad"

[Jeff Stein]

It would have been nice to leave home in the last 18 months 

[Derwent]

When I see Bishop Rock (Barf) on the A66.

[GUBRATS]

16 hours ago, Johnoco said:

Imagine the relief then, for those of us travelling in the opposite direction and back to civilisation?

Don't be silly , you lot go everywhere by train

[Copa]

When I see Telstra Tower in the distance.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=telstra+tower+canberra&client=safari&hl=en-au&prmd=imnxv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifmu-LioLzAhXG4zgGHQMIBXsQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=553&dpr=2

 

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

When I see the dark clouds I know I'm getting near, when it starts raining, I know I'm back in the county. 

[Mumby Magic]

When I start crying as I approach Keighley.

[Ullman]

On 15/09/2021 at 13:20, Derwent said:

When I see Bishop Rock (Barf) on the A66.

I know it well. Used to go to Braithwaite every year for a week at Easter with school.

[Robin Evans]

When I see the police helicopter. The plethora of crack houses. The pungent smell of Ganje. A Ford cortina on bricks in a garden. Aggressive homeless threatening for money. Industrial blight. Dog sheeite all over the pavements. 

Ahhh yes folks.... as I prepare to leave the far north of Scotland driving through the Highlands, the spectre and odours of Rovrum awaits. 

[Mark S]

When I see the pile of fly tipped waste that Doncaster Council haven’t bothered to clean up since January.

[Marauder]

37 minutes ago, Mark S said:

When I see the pile of fly tipped waste that Doncaster Council haven’t bothered to clean up since January.

Always thought they came out very quickly, have you reported it?

[Marauder]

It used to be the pit headgear at Thorne Colliery but today we have a bank of 24 nearly 500 feet high wind turbines.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

3 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

When I see the police helicopter. The plethora of crack houses. The pungent smell of Ganje. A Ford cortina on bricks in a garden. Aggressive homeless threatening for money. Industrial blight. Dog sheeite all over the pavements. 

Ahhh yes folks.... as I prepare to leave the far north of Scotland driving through the Highlands, the spectre and odours of Rovrum awaits. 

I'm purely guessing you understand but from this post and ones on other threads I get the impression you don't care much for Rotherham. Like I say, purely a guess you understand..!

[Mark S]

1 hour ago, Marauder said:

Always thought they came out very quickly, have you reported it?

I think there is an issue with it being on land owned by Darrington Quarries, it is also right on the border between Wakefield and Doncaster at Barnsdale Bar.

[Marauder]

2 minutes ago, Mark S said:

I think there is an issue with it being on land owned by Darrington Quarries, it is also right on the border between Wakefield and Doncaster at Barnsdale Bar.

It's the quarries problem then not the councils, I have near by boarders with North & East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire and DMBC will clean up if they are made aware of the problem, we do have people in our area who are on the fly tipping case all the time as we get a lot with it being rural.

 

3 minutes ago, Mark S said:

I think there is an issue with it being on land owned by Darrington Quarries, it is also right on the border between Wakefield and Doncaster at Barnsdale Bar.

 

[henage]

Traffic Jam . Cornwall to Hull (east) 400plus miles no problem , few near misses . 

Just managed to skip of road at Melton . Another 20 miles onto journey . Better than 2 hours in traffic . 

[Robin Evans]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I'm purely guessing you understand but from this post and ones on other threads I get the impression you don't care much for Rotherham. Like I say, purely a guess you understand..!

As sheeite holes go, it's up there.