Pre-Worboys preservation campaign

[Reading]

What is this - https://goo.gl/maps/WgFjLoRqFv12

[Chris Bertram]

What is this - https://goo.gl/maps/WgFjLoRqFv12

Yes, if the background is yellow, as I think it is, that's a pre-WB sign. It was superseded by the blue circle with red border and diagonal stroke.

[Reading]

Found it when looking at where eagle has landed was filmed in Mapledurham just north of the Thames by Reading - very much a dead end kind of road. More obviously yellow on the 2011 streetview

[DavidNW9]

It must be, someone put some pictures up on Flickr of one being renovated in their workshop. They've clearly got an official arrangement to keep them, I wish more places would while there's still a chance to.

[DavidNW9]

An absolute gem in Whitstable. Not many of these around now.

[mark3evo]

taken on a 500 mile motorcycle ride in a day through mid Wales summer 2016

[DavidNW9]

A local spotter found this for me, my nearest crossroads sign which was in Frinton.



and on the way I almost missed this as it was so faded I had to stop to see what it was.



The colouring should mean a B road, and has the arrow at the side rather than the top, and has M after miles which is also unusual except for route confirmations.

[B1040]

There were a number of these unusual signs on the approaches to Harwich at one time.
When they were there, I didn't really realise quite how unusual they were.
Then they built the new road and my great aunt died so I never saw them again.

[graeme_t]

The colouring should mean a B road, and has the arrow at the side rather than the top, and has M after miles which is also unusual except for route confirmations.

The Harwich sign (in my backyard, almost), has always looked green to me, and on Streetview it looks like it is green. I have meant to stop and get a photo sometime and upload to this threa, but I have never had time to.

[DavidNW9]

I was extremely lucky as I was simply following the signs and hadn't planned an exact route, and as the signs didn't point to Frinton I just used the map and went via the Harwich Road and Tendring and bingo, there it was. It must have been the lorry route to the port which had these made specially for the drivers to follow. There were similar yellow ones to the Woolwich Ferry someone managed to catch although without the mileage. I'll have to Streetview now in case any others are left although it took half the day to get there.

[Chris5156]

The colouring should mean a B road, and has the arrow at the side rather than the top, and has M after miles which is also unusual except for route confirmations.

Good lord, who'd have thought any of those survived!

The colouring doesn't mean a B-road. It's part of a series of white-on-green signs erected to give long-distance directions between London and Dover, Southampton and Harwich during the 1950s. I can't believe something so rare still exists. They were fast-tracked for replacement when Worboys came in for fear that they would be confused for primary route signs.

[DavidNW9]

An absolute gem spotted in the West End by one of my scouts.

sign use

They clearly had controlled parking zones long before the 70s.

I spotted this in Regents Park on the way back. The initials were stuck on later.

[Chris5156]

They clearly had controlled parking zones long before the 70s.

That's terrific. Yes, the first parking control zones were introduced in central London from the late 1950s under Ernest Marples, a programme that is usually only remembered for the introduction of the first parking meters. It actually involved restrictions on parking, new meters to ration available space and reduce parking times, and the introduction of new off-street parking areas in some places.

[DavidNW9]

Mopped up a nice haul in Cambs and Suffolk yesterday.

[Big L]

Altrincham

[DavidNW9]

I have just mopped up the west part of Northants. Only one was gone, the big yellow one in Kilsby where I was going anyway for photos.

Pre-Worboys Northants by David Howard, on Flickr

Pre-Worboys Northants by David Howard, on Flickr

Pre-Worboys Northants by David Howard, on Flickr

Pre-Worboys Northants by David Howard, on Flickr

Pre-Worboys Northants by David Howard, on Flickr

The two freestanding arrows have just been painted.

[crazyknightsfan]

The colouring should mean a B road, and has the arrow at the side rather than the top, and has M after miles which is also unusual except for route confirmations.

Good lord, who'd have thought any of those survived!

The colouring doesn't mean a B-road. It's part of a series of white-on-green signs erected to give long-distance directions between London and Dover, Southampton and Harwich during the 1950s. I can't believe something so rare still exists. They were fast-tracked for replacement when Worboys came in for fear that they would be confused for primary route signs.

This is fantastic - what a find.
Thanks for capturing David and for the info Chris.

[DavidNW9]

Funnily enough the final sign on my list which was gone had another green boxed place on a normal yellow map sign, which was the A361 (to Daventry which wasn't in green). Don't know how it qualified but now I know what it means. Here's the memory.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.33396 ... 6656?hl=en

[RichardA35]

Saw this in Lostwithiel last night which looked like it had been there some time and once internally illuminated.

[Chris5156]

Saw this in Lostwithiel last night which looked like it had been there some time and once internally illuminated.
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That's in Gill Sans, so not necessarily pre-Worboys. Not really clear what it is - or even whether it's publicly or privately owned!