Council and private signs from pre-Worboys era
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That's an official pre-Worboys, for motor vehicles has been covered up by whatever that is.
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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.
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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.
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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
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@ ... 5134426045
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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
https://goo.gl/maps/PWTsRoZNtgn
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Motorcycling and horse riding prohibited
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.
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.
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This is why there are regulations for road signs, otherwise you get results like this one. Ewhurst, Surrey.
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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?
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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.
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Normally pre-Worboys, but the Gibson font gives this away as Transport police, outside Baker Street station.
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I added the first pair of these long ago, I just found the matching pair pointing the other ways in East Finchley.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
Dorset Rd,
N15
"I went to a planet without bilateral symmetry and all I got was this lousy F-shirt."