I can only re-iterate what I have said before. In my experience such signs are not common. I have neen in a lot of pubs, all over the country for many years, and the only one I have ever seem in respect of travellers was in the Morning Star, Wardley, Mancheter which said 'Travellers Welcome!'

I have no doubt that you are right, Jim, and to travellers who do see the signs they are more common than they should be. But that is no evidence whatsover to say the signs are common. I know you will never agree but I believe that this is all Keith is trying to put across.

I have anecdotal evidence from someone I have no reason to disbelieve that they were made very unwelcome in a pub in Ireland. But I would never say that this is a common state of affairs. Why can you not just accept that to a small section of the population the signs do seem to be common while to the vast majority of us they are not. That way, surely, you are in more of a position to do something about it. If you were to say that a few pubs still display these notices and you would like to see where they are so the issue can be addressed I, for one, would be far more ready to act that if if I was asked to go and tear down thousands of notices that do not exist!

Cheers

DtG