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Although may not tick all the boxes of mankyness.. we love old school signs here don't we? plus it is a little faded.. and the back side of it definately qualifies as manky if you saw it! While i was in the area today i captured those just off M58 jct 3 at the roundabout with the A570. The others were posted by Traffic Light man a few months ago but this one was on the road from Skem. Probably dates back to the opening of the motorway in 1980?
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Potentially original to the M58 opening, so 42 years!Rambo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 16:44 Although may not tick all the boxes of mankyness.. we love old school signs here don't we? plus it is a little faded.. and the back side of it definately qualifies as manky if you saw it! While i was in the area today i captured those just off M58 jct 3 at the roundabout with the A570. The others were posted by Traffic Light man a few months ago but this one was on the road from Skem. Probably dates back to the opening of the motorway in 1980?
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Re: Manky Signs
And another old school sign at the same junction.Bryn666 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 22:08Potentially original to the M58 opening, so 42 years!Rambo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 16:44 Although may not tick all the boxes of mankyness.. we love old school signs here don't we? plus it is a little faded.. and the back side of it definately qualifies as manky if you saw it! While i was in the area today i captured those just off M58 jct 3 at the roundabout with the A570. The others were posted by Traffic Light man a few months ago but this one was on the road from Skem. Probably dates back to the opening of the motorway in 1980?
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Further up the A570 towards Ormskirk is this oldish blue border attached to a new post.
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Manky finger post captured along the A5147 last week. I like the fact that long distance destinations are blue border too.
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Keeping the theme of Rambo's previous photo, here's another blue-bordered multi-finger post. The signs themselves are obviously old but the shiny metal bands would suggest that they have been reattached in the recent past:
They are double-sided but this - very faded and manky - side is completely hidden by trees. I suspect that the signs have been rotated on the post somehow or were misplaced when they were reattached.:
They are double-sided but this - very faded and manky - side is completely hidden by trees. I suspect that the signs have been rotated on the post somehow or were misplaced when they were reattached.:
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Goods one those.Kevin Roads wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 15:18 Keeping the theme of Rambo's previous photo, here's another blue-bordered multi-finger post. The signs themselves are obviously old but the shiny metal bands would suggest that they have been reattached in the recent past:
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They are double-sided but this - very faded and manky - side is completely hidden by trees. I suspect that the signs have been rotated on the post somehow or were misplaced when they were reattached.:
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58253 ... authuser=0
This isn't manky as such but the green patches just look completely wrong as if the sign is quite old. It's a favourite of mine anyway.
This isn't manky as such but the green patches just look completely wrong as if the sign is quite old. It's a favourite of mine anyway.
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And another one off another arm of the same roundabout!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58199 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58199 ... authuser=0
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Nice to see a manky sign in the manky signs thread.James1978 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 21:19 And another one off another arm of the same roundabout!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58199 ... authuser=0
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What signs that aren’t manky are you referring to ?Big L wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 21:23Nice to see a manky sign in the manky signs thread.James1978 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 21:19 And another one off another arm of the same roundabout!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58199 ... authuser=0
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That one is pretty filthy. Just being old is not manky.Rambo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 14:23What signs that aren’t manky are you referring to ?Big L wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 21:23Nice to see a manky sign in the manky signs thread.James1978 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 21:19 And another one off another arm of the same roundabout!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.58199 ... authuser=0
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Perhaps you could change the title of the thread as i’ve suggested a number of times in the past to include all obsolete/manky etc. Or a separate thread.?
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I’m not going through 65 pages of this thread splitting manky and old
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