How do you spell it again? Council forced to remove street sign after blunder
The postman might need to look twice after a sign was replaced in a Black Country street with the road name spelt wrong.
It’s the mistake all councils hate to make, as a rogue ‘a’ was added to Ferndale Road in Oldbury, making it Fernadale Road – much to the amusement of residents.
But any fears that the road had been re-named were quickly put to bed as the signs were hurriedly taken down after the gaffe was spotted.
The error has been blamed on a contractor and red-faced council bosses said the sign was removed as soon as it was reported.
A picture of the misspelt road sign attracted attention after being posted on social media by an eagle-eyed resident.
New street signs were put up in the street recently but have now had to be taken down again.
Sandwell Council’s roads boss Councillor David Hosell said: “This was a mistake made by our contractor, as soon as it was noticed the sign was taken down and we’ll get it replaced as soon as possible.”
It comes less than two years after Sandwell Council was forced to remove more signs after mistakenly putting up signs reading Foley Road in Foley Street, Wednesbury.
