"I hope that you informed the police about the pubs you saw these signs in?"
No I didn't - I learned from bitter experience that:
A The police do not act on such reports - see my account of reporting a proposed fire bomb attack on Traveller families on Mitcham Common.
B Such reports can often lead to harassment of Travellers by police and an escalation of prejudiced activity by local businesses.
And most importantly:
C The Travellers we know prefer to deal with it in their own way - in the case of English Travellers, through The Romany Guild or The Gypsy Council - with others, through sympathetic supporter groups In the good old days of the GLC, Ken Livingstone was incredibly helpful but Maggie put paid to that.
The Irish, Scots and Welsh Travellers in London had their own group and mounted a vigorous campaign against the signs, but this died a death when the Major Government repealed the 1968 Caravan and Camping Act, leaving all but a tiny handful of Travellers with no legal stopping places.
Most Travellers we know prefer to keep a low profile (and not "whinge") and work around the ban in other ways.
I take it from your failure to respond that you accept my assurance that I in no way implied that you were lying when you claimed that you had never seen these signs?
Jim Carroll