Nothing unusual about that one. There's an identical one in the middle distance.
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There's a roundabout at Cannard's Grave, near Shepton Mallet, on the A 37, with concrete sheep on it. I'd like to see more roundabout sculptures or other art. It doesn't all have to mean anything, just something to see.
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Blue ribbon roundabout Coventry
tinyurl.com/ygpax8x
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At the junction of the A24 and A25 in Dorking there is a sculpture in the middle of James May's favourite roundabout.
www.flickr.com/photos/nickhi/3590142411/
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Several steel-related sculptures in the centre of a series of roundabouts on the A66 heading east from Middlesbrough to Redcar.
They weren't there when Google flew over.
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The camel(s) beside the M5 in Somerset are a relic of a long-ago Bridgwater Carnival. If you want to see how well the locals can work with glass fibre and the like the Carnival is on the nearest Friday to November 5 every year and well worth a visit if you can stand or sit in the cold for more than three hours. It's very different from the Notting Hill effort and much more of a spectacle.
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Does Bridgwater still whiff a bit ? Somewhere in the back of my mind I recall being told why it pongs ( or ponged ) but I can't remember now.....I'm sure one of you will know ?
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much more of a spectacle.
Ah, but does it have the sublime clamour and bedlam, mh? The massive woofers? The new chirrupping and twanging noises at 2000 decibels?
I know you're a Somerset man - so am I by upbringing at least - but, how can I put this? Can they, er, you know, move and shake it in Bridgewater? I will venture to doubt it ...
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And in the winter they both have scarves round their necks to keep them warm..............it's true:)
Pat
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Sorry for the wind-up Lud, couldn't resist it. They are very different animals - the carnivals that is, not the camels.
The Bridgwater pong came from the huge manufacturing plant of British Cellophane, on the eastern side of the town, close to the M5. Both the plant and the pong are now history.
The firm was set up in the early 1930s with government backing, to provide jobs for a suitable area where an existing industry was in decline. Bridgwater presented the best case for the plant, to replace, in part, its fast-fading brick and tile industry.
The pong was a fact of life for decades and resisted all attempts to eradicate it. The 'plume' normally spread eastwards on the prevailing wind but if the breeze was from the east the whole town smelled it. It didn't stop me considering once buying a house close to the factory and I worked in the town for some years without any apparent ill-effects. The MD of what by then had become British Celanese, or something like that, once told me the smelly element of the cellophane-making process, involving boiling down eucalyptus trees, is so potent that something like one part in ten million parts of air is enough to be offensive.
He was - rightly - highly defensive of cellophane, it is bio-degradable while modern plastic substitutes often aren't, and very suitable for food packaging because it doesn't try to regain its original shape when used for things like sweet wrappings - Werther's Original was a big customer - not to mention for making the original 'Sellotape'. Oh, and (motoring link) he had a very nice early E-type!
There you are, all you need to know. I should be writing for wackypedia.
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