Pre-Worboys preservation campaign

[DavidNW9]

Harlow. Not standard but PW age and format. Not many were painted but I've seen the odd one.

[WHBM]

Some of the old-style yellow-backed direction signs used to have the AA or RAC logo in a bottom corner, but were to standard spec. These were not temporary signs for events but permanent direction ones. I've often wondered what were the circumstances when the Organisations needed to erect such signs rather than the highways authority.

[Chris5156]

Some of the old-style yellow-backed direction signs used to have the AA or RAC logo in a bottom corner, but were to standard spec. These were not temporary signs for events but permanent direction ones. I've often wondered what were the circumstances when the Organisations needed to erect such signs rather than the highways authority.

Until the Worboys report the AA and RAC routinely erected permanent direction signs (and also sometimes warning signs too, though less so over the years) and had official status in doing so. I don't know how (or if) they coordinated their efforts with each other or with highway authorities but it was certainly something they considered to be part of their organisations' role.

I've seen documents from the 1950s in which the Ministry was already getting a bit impatient with this business, the specific complaint being that within London they were not coordinating choices of destination with each other or with local authorities' signs, meaning that signposted destinations would change from one junction to the next, and the AA had actually gone as far as to signpost a "North Circular Road" of its own devising somewhere through East London at odds to the official route.

In 1964 one of the changes brought about by the Worboys report was to remove the motoring clubs' status as providers of permanent signage, but they retain to this day the right to erect temporary signage.

[jonnyf90]

Saw a cracker today when going to The Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.34288 ... 6656?hl=en

Cheers
Jonny

[WHBM]

they retain to this day the right to erect temporary signage.

Even that seems to be disappearing. In part because they slowly changed from doing this as a service, for county shows and comparable events, to just charging (quite a lot) for doing so. They will actually sign whatever you like, at a price.

[B1040]

Harlow. Not standard but PW age and format. Not many were painted but I've seen the odd one.

I remember those!

[Berk]

What would the sign look like if it wasn't bent and battered to death?? An illustration would do.

[B4444]

A93 just east of Braemar
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.00336 ... 312!8i6656

[B1040]

What would the sign look like if it wasn't bent and battered to death?? An illustration would do.

Three pixie like children running to play.

[DavidNW9]

A nice matching pair in Essex, the first was moved from the right to be in front of the place name recently.

[Klepsydra]

Very surprised to spot one in London NW10 this week.

[DavidNW9]

The Sutton bunch shown earlier are part of about ten in the vicinity, although a couple have since gone. If anyone wants to get photos send me a message as they aren't all that well known. The Harlesden one surfaced on Flickr a couple of years ago, and is in very good condition. I forgot there was a better condition version of another similar sign I have when I was in Stevenage yesterday but may return and carry on north soon to take more general photos as I'm on Geograph as a few more here are.

I can also confirm the 'High voltage overhead cable' sign half a mile into a field in Hutton, Essex on the (now closed) rail crossing was gone last week when I finally got there. It's the only one which was around but can't catch them all.

[drm567]

Is this the sort of thing people are interested in?

Saw these signs in Canterbury the other day.

[crazyknightsfan]

A93 just east of Braemar
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.00336 ... 312!8i6656

What does this one mean?
Reads to me like a prohibition on roadworkers marking double centrelines

[crazyknightsfan]

Is this the sort of thing people are interested in?

Saw these signs in Canterbury the other day.
PENTAX K-3-0401.jpg

Very much so

[drm567]

Is this the sort of thing people are interested in?

Saw these signs in Canterbury the other day.
PENTAX K-3-0401.jpg

Very much so

Glad it's of interest. Here's the GSV link, at the junction of High Street with Guildhall Street.

[DavidNW9]

A93 just east of Braemar
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.00336 ... 312!8i6656

What does this one mean?
Reads to me like a prohibition on roadworkers marking double centrelines

That is a nice one, although I thought single lines meant you can overtake regardless. No one has a picture of it yet.

Here's my latest offering near Burford. Rather than using the thin flag it uses the wide one with half empty, possibly as it is on the ground and easier to see.

[Dadge]

Haven't seen this one on here. http://s247.photobucket.com/user/dadgec ... y.jpg.html

And a nice village sign pair (Roughton) http://s247.photobucket.com/user/dadgec ... ort=3&o=18

And here's two in Clent http://s247.photobucket.com/user/dadgec ... ort=3&o=53

[DavidNW9]

I already have at least four school signs, but none either with a triangle or an intact sign together. I finally found this one west of Cambridge this week.

The photos have gone Dadge, Photobucket have hidden them.

[Arcuarius]

Just spotted this sign on the B1025 between Mersea Island & Colchester.
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