Pre-Worboys preservation campaign

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TS wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 01:34
I also spotted what I think is a pre-Worboys route confirmation sign on the A40 leaving Scleddau southbound - a few miles south of Fishguard.
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Absolutely, never seen that one before, and survived the yellow bordered A40 sign in Shepherds Bush (the only one left to my knowledge) which was gone by the time I checked around 2009.
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Rambo wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 19:56 To celebrate getting to 100 pages of this thread. This is one i recently found by chance down a side street in Leyland, Lancs. Took me by surprise.
Another first, with a second on the other side presumably with the arrow facing the other way. It's the same format as the pedestrian subway signs, and I do have a p-w concealed entrance sign in Kent without an arrow.
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Nicholas wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2018 14:56
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
There are also a number on the side roads leading off Lower Blandford Road, about 2 miles south west of the Merley examples above.
The Blandford Road ones have been gone a couple of years now :-( as the whole road is now 30.

They were absolute beauties, because they had the 40 on the other side of the same sign.
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sadly this lovely A82 sign is no more
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I spent a day in very rural Co Durham yesterday which I thought might give rich pickings. Sadly all I saw were a couple of village signs, and a red triangle atop a gloriously manky 'modern' sign.
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This is not a sign, but it's too tiny to have a thread of its own, I think - and I guess it is pre-Worboys! I've always known it since moving to Bournemouth in 1986. It's on the crossroads of Castle Road and Muscliffe Road, and until fairly recently had an old cast-iron embossed MUSCLIFF ROAD nameplate, which had had an E painted on, unembossed, when the spelling of Muscliffe changed.

Can anyone tell me what sort of age it might be?
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I did come across this yesterday.
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I don't think this sign here is as old as the styling would suggest but it's a lovely specimen nonetheless
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Spotted this today. Was this a recognised layout even in pre WB days?
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A recent visit confirms that the area around Lockerbie in southern Scotland is, indeed, a rich source of PW survivors.
The small town of Langholm can possibly boast the greatest surviving concentration of free parking signs, namely;
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...and there are these two on the way in from the North and West.
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Two of the signs near the village of Hightae have been posted before, but there is a third, and here they are.
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This was posted on page 41 of this forum by Elliot Matthew in 2012, with sign and hedgerow in pristine condition and what appear to be daffodils growing in the verge.
Alas the area is now much overgrown, and the sign has been dislodged side-on, so directing A75 traffic along the hedgerow! but at least it is still there, east of Dumfries.
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One of these two was posted a while back, from Claygate; Here are both.
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...and here is a very pleasant surprise, on the english side of the border, but in the same area.
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Did you see this sign on your travels? I took this 19 years ago so it may no longer be there.
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Fantastic collection you posted there, bazzerpf
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Agreed. another great selection there bazzerpf.

Apologies but i think this may have featured before. Taken recently along the A4085.
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Warning/hazard pillar with just a hint of the black-and-white banding remaining but the reflective pieces in the disc are long-gone.

There is another pillar to the left of this one but only a stump of it remains.
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Kevin Roads wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 21:16 Warning/hazard pillar with just a hint of the black-and-white banding remaining but the reflective pieces in the disc are long-gone.

There is another pillar to the left of this one but only a stump of it remains.

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