Pre-Worboys preservation campaign

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The good people of Settle & Giggleswick, N Yorkshire, continue to look after their pw signs. This one on the north side of Giggleswick has now been cleaned up, so here are the before-and-after shots, the first from June 2020.
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..and I've noticed there are quite a few pw signs dotted around Wirral, including these two signs either side of a pole, on the old Chester Road at Sutton Green.
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Here's a preserved sign on the outside wall of the Grassington Folk Museum, N Yorkshire, there for all to see. Although it's not in its original place, it is only a hundred yards away from it, I believe it used to be just around the corner on Wood Lane.
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Another nice selection there Bazzerpfr.

I know this one has been featured before but it was the first time i've managed to capture it recently being a bit off region for me.
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Rambo wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 20:09 Another nice selection there Bazzerpfr.

I know this one has been featured before but it was the first time i've managed to capture it recently being a bit off region for me.
The old anglicised spelling of Dolgellau! Haven't seen that in many years.
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Here's one still hanging on in Belford, Northumberland.
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Uploading photos to SABRE is a clumsy process so here's a link to the Pre-Worboys 30 signs I was directed to. I've digitally restored one of the photos so you can see how the signs would have looked closer to their installation date.

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Bazzerpfr wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 21:48 Here's one still hanging on in Belford, Northumberland.
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That one's a beauty. Any Preebs that still have studs rank higher on my list.
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Here's one from Milton Keynes, not normally a pw stronghold apart from the Bletchley Park codebreakers centre, but the sign is in Fenny Stratford, one of the old towns that the modern MK was built around;
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...and, for the record, the Bletchley Park ones...
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This was spotted on the north side of Aylesbury.
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I don't think I've posted this one before. It's on a private road and is one of two entrances to Primrose Valley Holiday Camp near Filey, Yorkshire. The newer entrance has a modern-day red triangle sign, but the older one has this (it can get obscured by vegetation).
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..and pw signs in Norfolk seem to be almost non-existant; But does this count? Surviving at Overstrand near Cromer, at a bend in the road.
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To the beach sign definitely counts. There's one in Filey with steps to beach. I missed that one when I was in Cromer. At least eight unique examples in Jersey including a direction. https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Jersey%20worboys

I went to Bletchley Park recently but it was closed. I presume you have to go through the gates to access the signs there.
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Saw these in Much Wenlock this afternoon.
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Nice complementary pair at Carhampton, Somerset
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I do believe this one on the corner of Chapel Street opposite the wonderful McManus Museum in Dundee has not been mentioned yet.

https://goo.gl/maps/s2Y9rH8NPTEegqUH7

The building the sign is attached to was the United Free Church before the bank moved in, as can be seen from the end facade. The Keiller Shopping Centre was the site of a major sweet factory where marmalade was first produced en-masse.
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Big Nick wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 23:09 I do believe this one on the corner of Chapel Street opposite the wonderful McManus Museum in Dundee has not been mentioned yet.

https://goo.gl/maps/s2Y9rH8NPTEegqUH7

The building the sign is attached to was the United Free Church before the bank moved in, as can be seen from the end facade. The Keiller Shopping Centre was the site of a major sweet factory where marmalade was first produced en-masse.
Lovely, I'm not familiar with it. I passed two very similar locally for decades and never thought to take photos. Too late now.
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One I forgot all about 4 years ago - Tregaron, mid Wales. https://goo.gl/maps/MWFMvKLBpxzX6ikn9

Pre-Worboys on one side and a classic Worboys on the other.
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This one is now inside the Barracks Museum in Berwick upon Tweed, but was originally mounted outside on Parade.

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