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Rambo wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 20:29 Not snapped much mankyness lately. This one was captured in Oct 2020. Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. 8 destinations is quite impressive!
The kerning on that is way off, a very ancient botch!
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MotorwayGuy wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 21:20
Rambo wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 20:29 Not snapped much mankyness lately. This one was captured in Oct 2020. Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. 8 destinations is quite impressive!
The kerning on that is way off, a very ancient botch!
I was thinking should it have been blue bordered as well?
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Rambo wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 20:29 Not snapped much mankyness lately. This one was captured in Oct 2020. Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. 8 destinations is quite impressive!
Three of those destinations are now covered by the preceding sign, but I notice Manchester Airport isn't one of them. At 14 miles, should that ever have been on a local sign? I'm also somewhat curious as to what the intended route to the airport would have been.
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[I'm also somewhat curious as to what the intended route to the airport would have been.]
During the late 1980s I lived in Longsight for a while and went to most places in the Manchester area on a bicycle – I had no driving licence in those days – a lot of these old signs with the mileage to Manchester Airport were at nearly every main junction – those from the A57(M) Mancunian Way generally stated "Manchester Airport 9½ miles", "9 miles" or "10 miles" – the signed route was A6010, A6, A57(M), A5103 and M56 from both east and west sides of Manchester!

Nowadays I don't think there's a full continuous route signed along the local direction type signs, such as those like the one depicted that remain, certainly not one where you can follow the "14 miles" all the way down to zero!

At the time all the old "Warboys Era" signage was erected with distances shown to most local destinations, the intention was that the signed route to Manchester Airport was for a motor vehicle – if you tried following them on a bicycle you'd either end up on the A57(M) (the old local direction signing along the A57(M) also had distances to "Manchester Airport" on it!) or along other routes where cycling was prohibited – and that was before you got to the M56 – there was no such thing as "active travel" or "sustainable travel" routes for NMUs at the time those signs were erected!

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Similar to Rambo, I haven't posted many manky signs for a while but I recently spotted this classic:
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It's at 90 degrees to its original (correct) position, so is pointing away from the car park.

The other side is in an slightly worse state:
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I saw this a couple of months ago and finally managed to take a photo today:
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It must be one of a dying breed as I can't imagine that there are many new telephone signs being installed, also lots of the existing ones will be redundant as phoneboxes dwindle in number.
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Kevin Roads wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 17:23 I saw this a couple of months ago and finally managed to take a photo today:
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It must be one of a dying breed as I can't imagine that there are many new telephone signs being installed, also lots of the existing ones will be redundant as phoneboxes dwindle in number.
That's certainly different to the usual telephone signs hanging around. They're slowly disappearing that's for sure. I've notice a few that have been removed near me lately. Usually because the phone box has long since gone!

Here's one in Chester thats starting to get a bit manky.
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The classic Broad Green fork sign along Queens Drive hasn't fared well lately. GSV image from Nov 2021. Should we organise a team to go down and give it a wipe?
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There is an ADS with a nice telephone symbol on the A299, along with this blue-bordered one by the lay-by.

The telephone appears to have been long since removed, with no sign of one in 2009.
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Fairly manky and faded, definitely old as it has visible rivets and I'm fairly sure that the school isn't there any more.
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Manky dark-blue border:
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I posted this as a Streetview link earlier this year but have managed to take a photo:
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More mankiness:
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Tired-looking:
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At first-glance this looked pre-Warboys but its just old-style and battered:
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Kevin Roads wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 13:49 I posted this as a Streetview link earlier this year but have managed to take a photo:
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this thick blue border caught my eye. looks like you’ve been busy and the weather has been good. sadly it’s been grey as a bag round here for a while.
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Rambo wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 15:43 [
this thick blue border caught my eye. looks like you’ve been busy and the weather has been good. sadly it’s been grey as a bag round here for a while.
We've been lucky with sun, cloudless sky and calm wind for the last few days, although it may be fairly localised as I've been up on the mountains and could see Anglesey coated in fog and I think it's similar further east, too. It's looking good for the next few days.

All the signs that I have posted today were caught on one fairly short* straightforward run out: most were found by chance but I knew of some.

*fairly short for round here in N Wales but, fortunately, the the roads are very quiet so it's quite enjoyable, especially in this glorious weather.
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An old side road sign near Kelsall, Cheshire. taken on a dreary day in January this year.
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An internally illuminated Give Way sign, still going strong in Llandudno.
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This blue bordered sign for the Health Centre to the west of Abergavenny on the A40 in Crickhowell has lost most of its blue border.
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