Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Discussion about street lighting, road signs, traffic signals - and all other street furniture - goes here.

Moderator: Site Management Team

Post Reply
User avatar
c2R
SABRE Wiki admin
Posts: 11162
Joined: Fri Jul 05, 2002 11:01

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by c2R »

Image

I saw this one peeking out behind a bush yesterday.
Is there a road improvement project going on near you? Help us to document it on the SABRE Wiki - help is available in the Digest forum.
Have you browsed SABRE Maps recently? Get involved! - see our guide to scanning and stitching maps
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

That's an official pre-Worboys, for motor vehicles has been covered up by whatever that is.
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Shame they added private property as it would have counted as pre-Worboys otherwise, especially as it was actually on a public road in Islington. But otherwise a lovely catch.

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

The luck does even out, last time the fuzzy object behind a fence turned out to be pre-Worboys, this looked possible in the dark from a distance but turned out to be sticky letters on a shoddy bit of wood. This one's in Nettlebed.

Image
Mikeya
Member
Posts: 253
Joined: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:23
Location: The North

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by Mikeya »

I've scanned a few pages - and I'll add more - from a c1950 Franco Traffic Signs catalogue. Unusual description of the warning signs page as 'symbol plates'. Cheers, Mikey

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@ ... 5134426045
P Bellamy
Member
Posts: 74
Joined: Sun Feb 01, 2015 16:16

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by P Bellamy »

This nice fluted streetlight in Yaxley is currently being replaced with a boring modern one, but I'd completly forgotten about this Police sign mounted on it:

https://goo.gl/maps/PWTsRoZNtgn
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Motorcycling and horse riding prohibited

Image

This cropped up yesterday on Flickr in Frogmore and I raced up there to discover it was yet another sticky letters on wood despite being clearly the correct font and age. The red letters and strange backing (the white paint had long worn off) should have given me the clues but I wondered if it was metal which would have made it official. I have seen a few PWs made on wood so not 100% certain but this is on a path between two roads going through the lakes and the two new signs there are hand painted on wood which are clearly made in house.
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

This is why there are regulations for road signs, otherwise you get results like this one. Ewhurst, Surrey.

Image
dorsetlover
Member
Posts: 26
Joined: Wed Jun 24, 2015 21:53
Location: Dorset

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by dorsetlover »

I think down the road from the Dorchester South Station there is a sign which signposts Maiden Castle one way and Town and Bus Stops the other must get a photo next time I pass
Why not?
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

There are plenty of council signs (all named) for rubbish tipping (I assumed it was automatic by default outside council dumps) but I don't remember seeing an old one which survived before this.

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Houghton Regis, on a public road leading to the garages

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

On Norbiton Station bridge

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Normally pre-Worboys, but the Gibson font gives this away as Transport police, outside Baker Street station.

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

I added the first pair of these long ago, I just found the matching pair pointing the other ways in East Finchley.

Image
User avatar
vlad
Member
Posts: 2586
Joined: Tue May 13, 2008 16:20
Location: Near the northern end of the A34

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by vlad »

I spotted this today. I think it fits better in this thread than the more general pre-Worboys one as there seems to be the ghost of an AA logo.

The reason the sign looks blurred is because it is. Looking at it closely the sign has been refurbished during its lifetime and so new lettering has been put on the sign albeit not in exactly the same place as the original lettering. The road was of course the original route of the B5160.
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." - Sylvia Plath
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

I haven't seen one like that before, probably pre-Worboys but no arrowhead. Possibly before they were statutory.

Here's an interesting one today in Guildford, I think road directions were council issued but all the ones here used the newer type arrow. It's like the old variation but thicker.

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

I passed this a few years ago and forgot exactly where, and despite checking all the roads online still missed it. It's actually in the middle of Chorleywood. It's also the first oblong with an arrow sign I've found, the other being the large multi direction sign which was in Minster which had been removed by the time I went there recently. There are a handful in the distant remote countryside in places like Wales but never seen anything closer than Minster.

Image

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Before the arrow was the pointing finger.

Image
User avatar
DavidNW9
Member
Posts: 1634
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2008 18:16
Location: London NW9
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by DavidNW9 »

Here's a nice traditional one from my childhood era in Dagnall

Image
Klepsydra
Member
Posts: 202
Joined: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:39
Location: Market Drayton
Contact:

Re: Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era

Post by Klepsydra »

Spotted in north London. I have no idea who made this sign; I don't recall ever seeing another one with this exact wording.

Dorset Rd,
N15
"I went to a planet without bilateral symmetry and all I got was this lousy F-shirt."
Post Reply