Funny shop signs.

[marknotts1983 1]

Not quite Nottingham but close;

I remember a shop in Ilkeston that had funny stickers in the window, one which read 'Save Gas, Fart in a Money Box!"

There were others, but can't remember now, must've been 20 years ago.

[Chulla 4,946]

I don't know how true this is, but years ago my father told me that before the war there were two shops in Carrington Street with the name Bogger - no doubt the spelling would be different but probably pronounced thus. One of the shops had a sign in the window saying "We are no relation to the Boggers up the road".

Chulla

[DAVIDW 1,683]

Don't know if it's true but it made me laugh !!

Edit : Actually could be true as there were a few BOGERS on the 1911 Census !

Can't see any on the current Electoral Roles though, so all the Bogers must have buggered off !

[DaveN 1,118]

There used to be a fruit & veg shop on Mansfield Road called "I Onion"

[bobster 2]

the scaffolders  pick up truck always made me laugh with the writing "for a better erection" written on it. not seen it for a while though

 

[jonab 1,644]

On 4/19/2014 at 8:06 PM, DaveN said:

There used to be a fruit & veg shop on Mansfield Road called "I Onion"

 

There was a garage in Loughborough called Zachariah Onions but they always insisted that it wasn't Onions but O'Nions (as in the Irish pronunciation).

[jonab 1,644]

Another name oddity I have come across was an engineer at (I think) Plessey whose name was Sidebottom - nothing more than slightly amusing in that but, on an occasion I had to phone him the telephonist at Plessey told me there was nobody of that name there. I said there was as he had written me a letter.

"How are you spelling that name?"

I spelt out SIDEBOTTOM  to her.

"Ah, you mean Mr Sid-E-Bott-home."

[nonnaB 4,895]

In the village theres a block of apartments and a list of all the residents. The apartment block is nicknamed the zoo.

Surnames...not joking.

Bue. (bull)

Vacca. (cow)

can't remember any others but all names of animals.