The Council of ARM would like to invite all pro-British weights and measures campaigners to our first Annual Social at Stratford-on-Avon - Saturday 22 June. Meet Shakespeare Hotel, Chapel Street, between 12noon and 2pm (a variety of lunches available from a round of sandwiches to a 3-course meal). This will celebrate one year since our initial and successful raid on 18 illegal metric signs erected by Northampton Borough Council.

A demetrication exercise involving a few prominent local signs is planned for the afternoon. After tea, a more extensive demetrication exercise for serious activists is planned for the evening, in a nearby Midlands town

Please ring me - Polly - on 01480 435837 for further details

The following sequence of events has taken place in relation to four large notices giving the distances to emergency telephones along the south bank of the River Avon:

June - Metric signs overpainted and lettering in yards affixed by ARM supporters

July - Council remove Imperial lettering and overlabel with a brand new yellow-and-black label in metres only

August - Another visit by ARM supporters who peeled off the new metric-only labels and used white paint and black card to re-label in yards

September - Council relent and label their sign again with a yellow-and-black notice - this time with yards in large letters and with metres in small writing in brackets underneath.


A hard-won victory, just to get them to comply witrh te law.

P.S. Letters were sent by ARM to Stratford-on-Avon Council about this matter but we did not have the courtesy of a reply

Who pays for this council?

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