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A Load Of Bollards

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There's nothing notable about bollards: they're everywhere.

Or is there?

How about these ones in Bishop Auckland with a mitre shaped top?

Or these child shaped ones in Nottingham cleverly combining cuteness with a serious safety message?

When I first saw all the rising bollards in Cambridge they were distinctive but they're not unusual now.

But what about these sliding bollard outside The Crucible? Here's them being installed.

So let's hear abut all the other unusual or interesting bollards out there! :rolleyes:
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For fans of bollards see World Bollard Association @WorldBollard on Twitter. Not a real association of course, but if you like to see pictures of bollards and vehicles being wrecked on them, you could do worse.
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These 2 pedestrians have managed to not trip over the bollards either side of the bridge plonked in the middle of the path. They are officially there to prevent vehicles clipping the bridge rather than stop pedestrians crossing that side on the pavement as the council don't deem the thing that looks like a footway and links 2 footways to actually be a footway. There's no pedestrian phases to the traffic lights around the bridge (it's all 1 connected junction) so pedestrians are very much on their own here so take routes they want to rather than ones the council would prefer.
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Fenlander wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 14:11 These 2 pedestrians have managed to not trip over the bollards either side of the bridge plonked in the middle of the path. They are officially there to prevent vehicles clipping the bridge rather than stop pedestrians crossing that side on the pavement as the council don't deem the thing that looks like a footway and links 2 footways to actually be a footway. There's no pedestrian phases to the traffic lights around the bridge (it's all 1 connected junction) so pedestrians are very much on their own here so take routes they want to rather than ones the council would prefer.
It's a bit narrow for a regular footway, though. The footway on the other side of the bridge is much more like it.
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Fenlander wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 14:11 These 2 pedestrians have managed to not trip over the bollards either side of the bridge plonked in the middle of the path. They are officially there to prevent vehicles clipping the bridge rather than stop pedestrians crossing that side on the pavement as the council don't deem the thing that looks like a footway and links 2 footways to actually be a footway. There's no pedestrian phases to the traffic lights around the bridge (it's all 1 connected junction) so pedestrians are very much on their own here so take routes they want to rather than ones the council would prefer.
Gosh - that's a particularly stark example of somewhere that looks like an extremely nice place to hang around and walk through, completely ruined by some incredibly pedestrian-hostile design. I wonder if the area has a parking/traffic problem? Can't think why!
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The bollards outside the Co-op in Whitby used to be decorated in a piratical theme:
https://goo.gl/maps/ETGZgesKzTTPMWJe6

I was going to take my own photo, but they got repainted a couple of weeks ago, sans faces.
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These ones in Dublin are useful for stopping vehicles getting onto the paved area. The installation crew are just cleaning up after a day of cementing them all in ...
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WHBM wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 00:07 These ones in Dublin are useful for stopping vehicles getting onto the paved area. The installation crew are just cleaning up after a day of cementing them all in ...

Contractors clean up.jpg
I’m fairly sure that’s Manchester - when the picture first did the rounds online it was supposedly there, and the pedestrian sign is the type installed across the city centre there in the 2000s.
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Coventry used to have loads with elephants on top, but most vanished when the 'shared spaces' fad came along.

I would think a lot of places have had 'personalised' bollards like that in the centre of town.
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The penguin is known to be a hardy species. These ones have survived in a hostile environment for well over ten years!
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Big L wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:42 Coventry used to have loads with elephants on top, but most vanished when the 'shared spaces' fad came along.

I would think a lot of places have had 'personalised' bollards like that in the centre of town.
On our first visit to Coventry, I was stood on the cathedral steps looking up at Epstein's sculpture "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" when my bemused wife asked "Why the big b*lls?"

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FleetlinePhil wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 18:35
Big L wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:42 Coventry used to have loads with elephants on top, but most vanished when the 'shared spaces' fad came along.

I would think a lot of places have had 'personalised' bollards like that in the centre of town.
On our first visit to Coventry, I was stood on the cathedral steps looking up at Epstein's sculpture "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" when my bemused wife asked "Why the big b*lls?"
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Big L wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 19:42
FleetlinePhil wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 18:35
Big L wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:42 Coventry used to have loads with elephants on top, but most vanished when the 'shared spaces' fad came along.

I would think a lot of places have had 'personalised' bollards like that in the centre of town.
On our first visit to Coventry, I was stood on the cathedral steps looking up at Epstein's sculpture "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" when my bemused wife asked "Why the big b*lls?"
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Sorry, I'm out at the moment, I will have a look tomorrow :confused: .

Edit - link on my post is now sorted, thanks for pointing it out.
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Big L wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:42 Coventry used to have loads with elephants on top, but most vanished when the 'shared spaces' fad came along.

I would think a lot of places have had 'personalised' bollards like that in the centre of town.
These are a long way from home then
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The Manchester bollards have a Bee cast into them.

The Stockport ones have a diamond & the town crest.
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RichardA626 wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 22:29 The Manchester bollards have a Bee cast into them.
The bee used to be the symbol of Boddington's brewery, who were in Strangeways within the city boundaries. Their bitter was particularly distinctive, though the mild wasn't bad either. They were taken over by Whitbread in 1989, and though that meant that the beer got nationwide distribution it also resulted in compromises in quality, and the beer lost some of its distinctiveness. The Strangeways brewery closed in 2005. I think you can still get the bitter in cans and brewery-conditioned form, with it being brewed at Samlesbury, near Preston, but the once-revered cask version, which Hydes of Moss Side took over, has now gone entirely.
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Chris Bertram wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 09:22
RichardA626 wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 22:29 The Manchester bollards have a Bee cast into them.
The bee used to be the symbol of Boddington's brewery, who were in Strangeways within the city boundaries. Their bitter was particularly distinctive, though the mild wasn't bad either. They were taken over by Whitbread in 1989, and though that meant that the beer got nationwide distribution it also resulted in compromises in quality, and the beer lost some of its distinctiveness. The Strangeways brewery closed in 2005. I think you can still get the bitter in cans and brewery-conditioned form, with it being brewed at Samlesbury, near Preston, but the once-revered cask version, which Hydes of Moss Side took over, has now gone entirely.
I remember it was controversial when the Strangeways Brewery closed.
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