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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
John Baron

Where's 'Pudesy'? Spelling mistake is a sign of the times

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The offending sign off Pudsey Road, Bramley Photograph: John Baron/guardian.co.uk

Most Leeds folk know that the market town of Pudsey is famous for many things - not just the Children In Need bear.

Former England cricket captain Sir Len Hutton was born in nearby Fulneck and was called "the man from Pudsey" - and, of course, it's renowned as the place 'where the ducks fly backwards'. As a Pudsey lad myself, I fondly remember as a child my grandad telling me of the town's treacle mines, although strangely I never did find out where they were...

I spotted a spelling mistake on a sign on Pudsey Road the other day which seemed to reinvent Pudsey into somewhere called 'Pudesy'.

The unfortunate spelling mistake was also spotted by resident Wayne O'Donnell, who reported it to the council via Fix My Street.

Perhaps Pudesy is where those elusive and fabled treacle mines are?

What do you think? Have your say in the comments section below.

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