Pre-Worboys preservation campaign

[DavidNW9]

It overlaps the two, yes it's a direction sign, I also have a few with the arrow as part of the sign, hard to know if they qualify but nice. My best is one to three roads with an arrow in the panel in Wootton Basset.

[DavidNW9]

Not sure of the vintage of this sign but looks interesting.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.26455 ... 384!8i8192

Old but a bog-standard set of fingerposts. No terminal arrows.

[DavidNW9]

That was a nice day out in Kent. I'm not 100% certain this wasn't to a private location (it's a stately home) but I think if the format is standard it should count.

[Bfivethousand]

Are these on the list?

Knockentiber

[DavidNW9]

Are these on the list?

Knockentiber

Almost certainly not, well spotted!

[maccate]

Otley, West Yorkshire. The round No Cycling sign I believe is pre Worboys but the sign below is a council one. There is another one I will need to dig the photo out as it is now too faded to get a decent picture.

[maccate]

There is this one on Wetherby Town Hall, West Yorkshire if not already posted.

[Chris5156]

Otley, West Yorkshire. The round No Cycling sign I believe is pre Worboys but the sign below is a council one. There is another one I will need to dig the photo out as it is now too faded to get a decent picture.

The circular sign in that picture is a Worboys one, just very faded.

[Chris Bertram]

Otley, West Yorkshire. The round No Cycling sign I believe is pre Worboys but the sign below is a council one. There is another one I will need to dig the photo out as it is now too faded to get a decent picture.

The circular sign in that picture is a Worboys one, just very faded.

I was going to say that Pre-Worboys version was a red circle containing the words NO CYCLING, or a rectangular sign saying CYCLING PROHIBITED.

[Bazzerpfr]

Here are a couple of oddities. This seems to be a genuine pw sign but without the pole! It's in the Stoke district of Plymouth.

[Bazzerpfr]

This would not normally count either, as it looks like it should be part of a fingerpost, but without the post! It is in Kendal, on a slight bend with a junction. There is no arrow for direction , but you might assume the road classification might be pointing the way, and indeed it does.

[Bazzerpfr]

This was posted a while ago but the link seems to have gone, so here it is, in the remote village of Blackawton near Dartmouth, Devon. See also the sign with a similar purpose, posted on this site at Oulton, near Stone, Staffs.

[DavidNW9]

Bugger, I think that's two I missed in Wetherby now. The no through roads are often low down and under road names so people know when they look for the road. The A687 one is yet a new variation and to me not a fingerpost as it's very similar to other signs without arrows which are rare but if they're to a place they still count. Here's one similar to it.

[Bfivethousand]

One from eBay... I don't think you'll ever find another enamel pre-Worboys sign in such pristine condition!

A 30

[Bazzerpfr]

Re Klepsydra's Barnoldswick sign (p110);

I've checked this out - it's about a mile west of Foulridge (pron. fole-ridge) just inside Lancashire, a few hundred yards from the pre-74 Yorks WR boundary - and discovered an astonishing restoration. The base of the pole is still there, it looks like the bottom has rusted and the sign had possibly even collapsed. Whatever, someone has removed the sign, painted the pole, cleaned up the sign itself and placed it firmly in the bank above the wall, so it faces exactly where it did before. They have gone to a lot of trouble, and to good effect.

[Bazzerpfr]

I also checked out Big Nick's sign at Elslack near Skipton, hoping to solve his query as to why the sign suggests some kind of track might be heading straight on at the junction when there isn't one there. It looks as though the sign might actually be on an old road, now the entrance to a car park, i.e. they maybe built a new junction because the old one was too dangerous, the A56 there is very busy. So I expected to find a track from the end of that old road. There is no evidence of one, so Big Nick's query remains. Anyway, here's the sign;

[DavidNW9]

I thought I'd mopped up every Surrey route confirmation sign, but this turned up recently. https://www.flickr.com/photos/93036177@N04/52329657516 Unfortunately it was taken back in 2019, and Google showed it present recently. I missed it as it had been turned flat to the road so invisible to most traffic. As it was Sunday when I make trips I went and it had just been removed. I could have waited to find out but it got me out and taking new places. If only someone would do it up and replace it as well.

On a similar note the one to Surbiton Station was painted, and removed afterwards for a few weeks and then replaced. That will always be a mystery to me as it had already been restored. Also when I was a passenger in the car in 2008 and saw a p-W roundabout sign under the railway bridge outside the station in Tolworth (the last in Britain) it was gone when I went back to get it. Then I found a video I'd taken there some years earlier and it wasn't there. I know what I saw and being on a major road you'd expect someone else did.

[fras]

Here ye'are: -
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.96840 ... 8192?hl=en
I see plenty when out and about in the back of the back of beyond ! This tends to be Shropshire and the English Marches

[Nathan_A_RF]

A friend let me know about these, have these been mentioned?
Car park in Berkhamsted: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.76251 ... 384!8i8192
Two height signs on this arch in Bolton Abbey (one each side): https://www.google.com/maps/@53.9827308 ... 384!8i8192

EDIT: just around the corner too! https://www.google.com/maps/@53.9814999 ... 384!8i8192

[DavidNW9]

Yes, all familiar but better repeated than missed.