Pre-Worboys preservation campaign
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- RichardA35
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Re: Pre-Worboys preservation campaign
..and a nice internally illuminated weight limit. There are quite a few internally illuminated signs hanging on to life in Bournemouth and Poole that I've seen in my travels.hburden wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 07:35 https://goo.gl/maps/Y6mRAJ9YnbS2
Spotted this old 30 sign yesterday. Still looks great.
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Both signs seem to have survived a column replacement too.
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Re: Pre-Worboys preservation campaign
In fact, I’ve just checked on GSV and the majority of side roads from Queen Anne Drive onto the housing estate retain the same set up with the old signs.
https://goo.gl/maps/2EBzq7pMqHo
https://goo.gl/maps/2EBzq7pMqHo
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There are also a number on the side roads leading off Lower Blandford Road, about 2 miles south west of the Merley examples above.hburden wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 09:52 In fact, I’ve just checked on GSV and the majority of side roads from Queen Anne Drive onto the housing estate retain the same set up with the old signs.
https://goo.gl/maps/2EBzq7pMqHo
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Quite a lot of my PW signs have been found randomly driving, and here is my first keep off the verge sign,only a couple survive in the UK in various forms plus a few council issued ones. This is odd as the letters look pretty old (the G changed in 1957), while the back is clean and shiny. It also has no border but that was more common with older signs which didn't follow specific rules when not standard versions. It's also had railings riveted to it to fit on the pole as some councils have done to PW signs, so clearly approve of them where they have. This is in a village between Reading and Wokingham.
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I don't expect there's too many of these any more...
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Wow, none at all as far as I know. One in the opposite colour scheme was on a roundabout until a few years ago in Rotherhithe, and this is the only other one I've ever seen which is still around.
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Id been doing some geocaching on the way home from work off the main roads and spotted this pair. First I've seen still in use on the roads, unsure how rare they are. Seen in Warwickshire.
2 NSL signs complete with reflectors
https://flic.kr/p/MFnmT4
https://flic.kr/p/2bmQfJS
https://flic.kr/p/MFnnQ4
2 NSL signs complete with reflectors
https://flic.kr/p/MFnmT4
https://flic.kr/p/2bmQfJS
https://flic.kr/p/MFnnQ4
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Fab. Isn't that what's called "button copy"?bozzer123 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 01:48 Id been doing some geocaching on the way home from work off the main roads and spotted this pair. First I've seen still in use on the roads, unsure how rare they are. Seen in Warwickshire.
2 NSL signs complete with reflectors
https://flic.kr/p/MFnmT4
https://flic.kr/p/2bmQfJS
https://flic.kr/p/MFnnQ4
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Re: Pre-Worboys preservation campaign
This must be unusual - a junction with a full set of 6 pre-Worboys direction signs. This is at Sutton Montis, just a couple of miles from Sparkford on the A303.
The two Queen Camel and the two Little Weston ones are (presumably older) embossed ones, while the two South Cadbury ones are flat (and a 'u' has become unpeeled from Compton Pauncefoot in one of them).
The two Queen Camel and the two Little Weston ones are (presumably older) embossed ones, while the two South Cadbury ones are flat (and a 'u' has become unpeeled from Compton Pauncefoot in one of them).
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Pure luck, the rush hour has its benefits as when you're in a jam you notice things you wouldn't have seen otherwise. This is in Fulham.
Pole is also fully original.
Pole is also fully original.
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Great job finding those TS, I've been past there a few times and collected a bunch of signs in east Somerset but this was the first unveiling of this set and I had to get back there today before the clocks went back.
I did check adjacent roads before I went as always and nothing else turned up. I did find this though which appears to be a modern copy as the font and structure aren't quite right. The E is wrong so clearly didn't use the full font set and it has had rails added to the back. Opinions?
I did check adjacent roads before I went as always and nothing else turned up. I did find this though which appears to be a modern copy as the font and structure aren't quite right. The E is wrong so clearly didn't use the full font set and it has had rails added to the back. Opinions?
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Here's a good one which is clearly not of the exact design I think of when I think 'pre-Worboys' but it does look pre-post-Worboys if you know what I mean!
Coincidentally, there is a modern sign a bit further along which happens to have the same figure, 219, in yards as the first one does in metres!
Note that the modern sign is metres-to-yards in the red triangle but yards-to-metres on the plate below.
Coincidentally, there is a modern sign a bit further along which happens to have the same figure, 219, in yards as the first one does in metres!
Note that the modern sign is metres-to-yards in the red triangle but yards-to-metres on the plate below.
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.61842 ... 384!8i8192
Does the sign in the above count?
It's on the A6, which I suppose at one time was a trunk/primary route, but now is just a suburban road on the outskirts of Chorley.
Does the sign in the above count?
It's on the A6, which I suppose at one time was a trunk/primary route, but now is just a suburban road on the outskirts of Chorley.
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That looks like the real deal. Well done!jimboLL wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 16:52 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.61842 ... 384!8i8192
Does the sign in the above count?
It's on the A6, which I suppose at one time was a trunk/primary route, but now is just a suburban road on the outskirts of Chorley.
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Re: Pre-Worboys preservation campaign
This double sided beauty just turned up in Chessington. Once you've covered the main roads there are still the odd direction signs tucked away elsewhere.
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I spotted this one yesterday in the centre of Sawbridgeworth, on the main London Road A1184, opposite Budgens and the filling station right in the town centre.
I am pretty sure this is the first embossed No Cycling sign that I've seen and I assume it is a pre-Worboys in the accepted definition of such?
I am pretty sure this is the first embossed No Cycling sign that I've seen and I assume it is a pre-Worboys in the accepted definition of such?