Green council forced to correct road sign for SS Great Britain after spelling blunder

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The SS Great Britain was designed by the legendary Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel

A Green council has been forced to correct a road sign after the word "Britain" was spelt incorrectly.

The road sign showed motorists directions towards the SS Great Britain, a former passenger steamship.

Bristol City Council sent out workers to apply a patch to the brown road sign near Temple Meads to correct the error.

It is unclear if the council was directly responsible for the mistake.

GB News has reached out to Bristol City Council for comment.

The incorrect spelling of Britain also made headlines last year when the Conservatives spelt it wrong in one of their handouts in an embarrassing blunder at their party conference in Manchester.

Party officials handed out chocolate bars with the quote, “When Labour negotiates, Britian loses”.

The SS Great Britain was designed by the legendary Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Launched in 1843 at the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol, she was the first ship in history to combine a wrought iron hull with a screw propeller on an ocean-going scale.

At 322 feet long, she was the largest vessel in the world at the time of her launch and served as the blueprint for modern shipbuilding.

For more than a decade, the ship was promoted as "Brunel's SS Great Britain".

But earlier this year, it came under fire after the site rebranded as the Bristol Dockyards, dropping "Great Britain" from its name in an effort to "represent diversity".

Andrew Edwards, the chief executive of the SS Great Britain Trust, admitted the rebrand would be received as "woke".

But under his watch, the site will focus more closely on the SS Great Britain's role in the British Empire and will look to spark "conversations" about topics like migration.

Mr Edwards told The Guardian: "Change is never easy. You’ll always get those that are resistant, but when we were shaping the vision, I tried to take stock of where the city was and what the city was all about."

He said the dockyards were determined to become more "cool" and reflect Bristol, a Green council-run hotbed of music, festivals and left-wing activism.

Mr Edwards said the "SS" in the ship's name did not stand for "slave ship", as is often believed, and instead was short for "steamship".

The name was announced ahead of the Bristol Dockyard's July opening of its expanded and revamped museum.