- Active Resistance to Metrication -

- GALLERY -

A Sussex Police Officer demonstrates his approval of ARM’s handiwork.

 

A Sussex Police Officer inspects a sign amended in Crawley, Sussex.

Tony Bennett with a sign amended to yards in Crawley, Sussex.

Kay Norman supports husband Derek as he amends an illegal metric sign in Crawley, Sussex.

Sign amended into yards by ARM.

Sign amended from ‘6.5km’ to read ‘4 miles and ½ furlong’ along Southend Promenade – one of the 23 signs along the promenade amended by ARM.

Sign in Cambridge amended by ARM [Before].

Sign in Cambridge amended by ARM [After].

“Now you see it, now you don’t”  The 2.51m sign is illegal as metre signs may onl have one figures after the decimal point. But the metric height is also confusing, so ARM removed it.

With illegal sign removed.

The late Dave Stephens, the butcher who stood up to the Trading Standards by refusing to sell in kilos, with his “Golden Rule” awad, for services to British Weights and Measures – together with a supporter.

Michael Plumbe, Chairman of the British Weights and Measures Association at Parliament Square in June 2000, campaigning against traders being forced to sell in kilos.

Dave Stephens with a protest letter to Tony Blair, Prime Minister, at the House of Commons – June 2000.

Left to right: the Late Steve Thoburn (1964-2004), his wife, Leigh Thoburn, the wife of Neil Herron and Neil Herron, the Director of the Metric Martyrs campaign, at the House of Commons – June 2000.

An ARM supporter covered over the illegal ‘2.0m’ with parcel tape – a quick but effective job.

Afterwards.

Illegal metric pedestian signs on Hastings Promedande – before and after they were amended by ARM.

Afterwards.

Illegal metric signs on Bourmemouth promedande – before and after they were amended by ARM.

Afterwards.

A sign in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk – aanother illegal metric sign amended by ARM supporters.

Afterwards.

An illegal metric sign at Kiby-le-Soken, Essex, amended by ARM.

Afterwards.

ARM discovered dozens of signs in metres around the Riverside Walk at Buckingham.  We amended them all into miles and yards, to the approval of bystanders who much preferred signs in British units - three more examples below:

This ‘Harvester’ sign, just north of Salisbury, used to say ‘150m’ before an ARM supporter improved it.

An illegal distance sign to Nuffield Hostpital, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, amended by ARM.

Yet another illegal distance sign to Nuffield Hostpital, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, amended by ARM.

Hampstead Heath, London, where ARM amended a sign in metres to make it more intelligable to the public.  In a survey in 2004, 98% of British people sia dthey understood distances in miles and yards, but only 29% unerstood the metric distances.

Yet another.

Fur den Wehrmacht?  An ARM activist discovered this military sign near to Dereham in Norfolk.  We didnt want to make it too easy for any invading forces from the continent so we blotted out the metric speed.

Yet another.

ARM inspected signs in Hyde Park and found them all in metric.  This one was changed into yards.  We still have more to do.

A metric footpath sign at Nazeing, Essex, amended by ARM.

Before.

A metric sign at Lower Nazeing, Essex, amended to read in mailes by ARM activists.

Afterwards.

Lee Valley Park Authority erected hundreds of sign in kilometres and metres in Lee Valley Park in the 1990s.  In 2001 ARM activists changed most of them, including this sign at Enfield Lock, Middlesex.  Now Lee Valley Park Authority have reversed their policy.  All their new footpath signs are only in miles and yards.