On the A40, at the outskirts of London is Northolt Airfield. Where the road crosses the centre line of the main runway, the lamp posts are cut down in size. I used to believe (because my father told me)that this was where lamp-posts were grown.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- I used to believe that picadilly circus was like a giant circus in the centre of london.— ãhnn???
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- We were told that the bread crust is more healthy than the centre.— Arnon
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz