What are your bizarre motorway landmarks?

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If we're on the M6, we have to wave to Beech Cliffe Sawmills near Stoke.

The Wicker Man and life-size model of a camel on the M5

On the A36 we look for the yellow elephant.
Dd1 swears there's a church not far from my mums that she looks for.
Wilton wall means we're half way to my sister's.

And various shops on the way to other places.

Where is the Wicker Man?

There's a house in the middle of a motorway I think it's on the M6.

Everyone cries "Who farted?" on the M25 just south of the M3 where there is always a stink.

That house was on that splendid BBC4 series about motorways. I think it's on the M62.

Wicker man is also M5, Somerset

littlerach, we went past the yellow elephant today!

I always glance at the water treatment place (think it's that - the beautiful metropolitan water board building) by the side of the M3, just as it turns from the A316 into the M3.

Also, the giant windmill on the M4 (think it's somewhere in Berkshire) just as you come on the m-way if you've sneaked up through Bracknell to change from the M3 to the M4 (on the A322).

my house! can just see it while on the m1,have to wave at it as we go past!

"HOLIDAY BRIDGE" - on M25 on way to Gatwick!!

I called it that in 1987 and it stuck and now everyone I know calls it the holiday bridge.

The Angel of the North-now that is hideous!!

Foxinsox, I htink the building is up for sale.#
This would be detrimental to most of our outing s I fear, a sit alwys gets the girls' attention.
"There's no such thing as a yellow elephant mummy"
"Oh yes there is"
and so forth.

it looked like it was

the elephant was all dirty and the building had been boarded up (sob)

I'm sure that elephant has been there for decades

lol at your conversation. THe weirdest conversations with children always seem to happen in cars/public transport. I think it's because they know they have a captive audience!

There is a bridge on the M1 with the word PEAS daubed on it.

the M8 pyramids, which recently had red sheep on them....

The elephant was actually listed on my dad's instructions when I firts came up here to look at uni.
Then it became a landmark for friends coming ot visit me etc etc!!
Maybe I could buy the lephant and let it stay there?

all the pylons on the M56 do they count?

as you wrote it I had a vision of me playing on it as a child (but it would have to be 30 odd years old then) - I have a feeling it used to be a Happy Eater decades ago but I may have got that completely wrong!

Well, it was 16 years ago that I saw it (eek!!)
Yes, it was a Little Chef or Happy Eater.

where the M5 and M6 join there's graffiti on the bridge support saying something about the north...scarily, it's no been that long but i can't remember what.
On the way home wicker man, camel wearing shades and the trains in the outbuildings.

ooooooooooh look littlerach

scroll down to the last picture (property to let - former happy eater A36)

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I'm SURE that's the yellow elephant peeking out in the corner

and of all the places, it's in Codford

so if you have a spare £11,770 pennies, we can all come and play on the yellow elephant

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On the A12 it is the McDondalds as DH always has to stop for a wee.