My Bristol

She’s from Yorkshire, and she’s agreed to be shown round the city by you - the  Bristolians who use this site and listen to BBC Radio Bristol.

We asked you to send in your pictures of the city, images that tell us what Bristol means to you. So what have Bristolians been snapping?

One of the first to contribute to our Flickr page goes by the handle of Shipscompass.  So what prompted this early bird to post?

Shipscompass has posted several photographs in a series called ‘Bristol’s Signs for Idiots’, to highlight what he sees as Bristol’s excessive, and sometimes mis-spelt, signage.

His amusing series of pictures seem to have struck a chord with other users, one of whom -Aztec West - left the comment: “Nobody in charge seems able to proofread, use a spell check, or even notice that there's a mistake”.  

Aztec West also claims to have seen signs for the 'Commonweath Museum', and a 'diabled parking space' painted onto the road in Kingswood.

Join the debate

How Bristol spends money on signs will be right up Jan’s street when she arrives, so if you see a sign that’s mis-spelt or badly placed, or if you want to highlight one that’s particularly clever or useful why not take a snap of it and join the debate?

Irony is not lost on Shipscompass as this snap proves. Can they seriously expect to fit nine flats into what looks like quite a small lot? Has property development gone mad as property prices spiral through the roof? Will that shopping trolley still be there long after the flats are built?

Shipscompass seems to think so. We can’t imagine that he’s particularly happy with this spot being filled with rusty corrugated iron either though, so something has to change.

Unfortunately as chief executive of a local council it’s not really possible for Jan to be able to control property prices, but it’s still great for her to see what concerns local people in Bristol.

Will Shipscompass show the way, or will his particular issues get lost in a sea of other contributions before we present our picture of Bristol to the new Chief Executive?

That’s up to you, the people of Bristol, to decide.