New signs made a bit like old ones
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Luckily I wanted somewhere new to take photos this week, and saw this on Streetview, and having seen the 1/2 was the old font didn't check the letters are clearly not. I had a nice afternoon out in Oxfordshire but the sign was not what it pretended to be.
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The lighting was awful when I took this but this is clearly a modern replacement for a pre-Worboys sign that must have existed before.
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A true classic!!Truvelo wrote:The lighting was awful when I took this but this is clearly a modern replacement for a pre-Worboys sign that must have existed before.
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That brings to mind some of the decidedly ropey signs and finger posts that’ve featured in Endeavour. One sign in particular looked just like that one. They did also make a stab at an early Worboys too...DavidNW9 wrote:Luckily I wanted somewhere new to take photos this week, and saw this on Streetview, and having seen the 1/2 was the old font didn't check the letters are clearly not. I had a nice afternoon out in Oxfordshire but the sign was not what it pretended to be.
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This looks council issued in Transport Heavy font, decades old by the condition, I am presuming the road is subject to flooding and is used like the ones on fords. Near Upton on Severn.
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Upton regularly cops it from flooding, so yes.
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As crude as it is, it’s nice to see that a blue border had been thought about!
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Technically the design with the arrow in the box had no border, all blue bordered signs had the arrow within the border itself. Had it been genuine it would have been a real classic though but was actually a combination of three different designs as they wouldn't usually include turn left in writing either.
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This horror in Loughton appears to have been made by a resident to deter fast traffic outside their house and was not asked to remove it. It's the same on both sides.
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Mod Note: As noted by a member, topic really should be in "Street Furniture", so it has been moved... I'm in a pedantic mood today.
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If I remember rightly street furniture was everything except road signs which went in roads until a year or two ago when it was decided to swap them. I don't know of any of the behind the scenes details why though.
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A bit of an oddity. This is on a private track just past Baldock, the signs behind it are clearly current, but the two numbers are not either official font, the 2 being Worboys and the 5 more or less pre-Worboys. I imagine they made it elsewhere with the nearest font they had.
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Looks like the railways and roads had a love child.DavidNW9 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 23:52 A bit of an oddity. This is on a private track just past Baldock, the signs behind it are clearly current, but the two numbers are not either official font, the 2 being Worboys and the 5 more or less pre-Worboys. I imagine they made it elsewhere with the nearest font they had.
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It's actually relatively recently that the railways adopted the "number in a circle" style of speed limit signing, prior to that (and stíll extant in quite a few places) it was a cut-out number on a stick, usually painted yellow for visibility.Bryn666 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 21:00Looks like the railways and roads had a love child.DavidNW9 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 23:52 A bit of an oddity. This is on a private track just past Baldock, the signs behind it are clearly current, but the two numbers are not either official font, the 2 being Worboys and the 5 more or less pre-Worboys. I imagine they made it elsewhere with the nearest font they had.
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Maybe tenuous but this has a pre worboys look about it https://www.google.com/maps/@53.6458197 ... 384!8i8192
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No, just just capital letters with council designed pictures.
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I'd value an expert opinion on this sign, to me it has a bit of a PW look about it. For comparison until recently there was what I think could be a genuine PW sign here on the same road (incidentally it's a camera glitch - it did actually say B1145 on the sign)
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Your second one looks like a real PW, the first one not - the font is Transport Medium and the corners are too rounded, it's a Worboys route confirmation sign with no destinations.skiddaw05 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:36 I'd value an expert opinion on this sign, to me it has a bit of a PW look about it. For comparison until recently there was what I think could be a genuine PW sign here on the same road (incidentally it's a camera glitch - it did actually say B1145 on the sign)
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