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This popped up on a local 'memories' Facebook page.
Anyone have any insight into what the sign is in relation to?
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Posted : 19/12/2016 11:49 am
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British Road Transport Association?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 11:52 am
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Possibly "British R(?) Temperance Association", where R could be Rail/Railways based on the spoked wheel at the centre?

Fairly sure the TA is Temperance Association, given the sign's on a hotel.

There was a BWTA (British Womens Temperance Association).


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:23 pm
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Bangladesh Road Transport Authority

Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (USA)

Brownfield Remediation Tax Assistance (canada)

Can't find anything UK based (apart from the link already posted)


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:27 pm
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Where is it?

Googling found the Berkshire Regional Transport Authority, and I found a reference to [url= http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-12165-hotel-mariners-haverfordwest ]this place[/url] in Pembrokeshire.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:31 pm
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Where is it?

Malvern, one of the old hotels here.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:34 pm
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Berkshire Regional Transit Authority [b](USA)[/b]

Ah, I didn't spot that bit.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:38 pm
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Bangladesh?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:42 pm
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See i read it as brota.

Which helped not a jot but did throw one up for sale.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 2:53 pm
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Was it the Central Hotel in Malvern?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 3:05 pm
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Was it the Central Hotel in Malvern?

I think it's the Great Malvern Hotel


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 3:12 pm
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Early meeting point for friends of Farage?
Brexit Requires Total A...holes.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 3:23 pm
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I'd put (a small amount) of money on it being Temperance related.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 3:25 pm
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my instincts immediately leapt to Round Table, before even considering the letters. with that in mind.. British Round Table Association?

nothing else correlates, but I thought I'd throw it out there


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 3:28 pm
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A variant of the 'winged wheel' Cyclist Touring Club badge?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 5:00 pm
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BloodyRoadTaxAvoiders


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 5:20 pm
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steve - being Malvern it's quite likely to be round table.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 5:21 pm
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I'd put (a small amount) of money on it being Temperance related.

Your reckless willingness to gamble fuelled by drink no doubt!


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 5:38 pm
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I checked and we don't hold any records for any temperance hotels or halls in Great Malvern.
Could be down to survival tho.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:11 pm
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Guido,
A quick Google suggest that the Central Hotel was temperance.

Also that Great Malvern Hotel was originally the Beauchamp Hotel, but that doesn't seem to throw up any temperance links.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:28 pm
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Great thread and lateral sleuthing! Nice one people. 8)

Sorry, nothing to contribute here but will certainly follow. ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:42 pm
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Sorry, I was checking the National List as I thought it was Listed. I'll check the archive and National Record tomorrow ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:57 pm
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Looking at the symbol at the top, British Royal 'Tache Association?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:53 pm
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I checked and we don't hold any records for any temperance hotels or halls in Great Malvern.

An old friend of lives (or lived..... don't know if he's moved) in an old temperance hostel just off the high st in Malvern. Every time he lifted a floorboard he'd find crushed up beer bottles underneath. Residents must have snuck them in then broken then up and shoved then down the cracks to hide them.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 9:09 pm
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Its been 20 years so I've been for a wander round Malvern on Street View trying to remember how I used to drive there.... but hazy memory suggests the building now being the Malvern Book Cooperative in St Ann's Road - for a short while he ran the shop space an art and craft gallery.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 9:55 pm
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If the "T.A." is a temperance thing the "B.R." could be "Blue Ribbon"


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 10:33 pm
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I'll check the archive and National Record tomorrow

Awesome, thanks guido ๐Ÿ™‚

for a short while he ran the shop space an art and craft gallery

I remember the gallery.

There's some great suggestions (especially British Royal 'Tache Association) and some awesome sluething ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 20/12/2016 9:16 am
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Here is one for sale in an auction

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/brightwells/catalogue-id-srbr10002/lot-86130d46-1b7a-4457-bc19-a3f701898f44

Google seems to suggest that it is an amalgamation of British Hospital Association AND Restaurant Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Hospitality_Association


 
Posted : 20/12/2016 12:40 pm
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Right then all these suggestions for temperance etc...

Look at the sign! its a wheel and a set of wing thats got touring association all over it.


 
Posted : 21/12/2016 1:51 pm