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On 7/14/2021 at 3:01 PM, mk2_craig said:

Still a few of those ā€œpre-Worboysā€ road signs in Jersey, havenā€™t got any of my own photos but Iā€™m sure there was a thread on a website somewhere.Ā 
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EDIT: Sent to me by a friend

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Hereā€™s one I did see recently, it is presumably not older than the sixties but features an older variant of the bus silhouette icon than the standard one thatā€™s been used everywhere for decades.Ā 
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Been making a mental note of where I see these, went back for this one today:

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Great! Except itā€™s a crossroads:

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Maybe they felt the sign for a three arm junction was adequate.Ā 

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On 8/7/2021 at 11:01 AM, warch said:

I'm enjoying trying to work out where all these signs are situated, I'm guessing somewhere between Dulwich and Balham?

Get paper map and a compass and draw circles centred on each location to the distance indicated, where they intersect should give you a triangulation.

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3 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Been making a mental note of where I see these, went back for this one today:

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Great! Except itā€™s a crossroads:

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Maybe they felt the sign for a three arm junction was adequate.Ā 

I guess it's because the road ahead is a dead end. Where is that, with Yellow stop lines?

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On 7/12/2021 at 4:30 PM, dozeydustman said:

Being a soft southerner there are still plenty of fingerpost style roadsigns lurking around here in Sussex, but also in Kent. One of my favouritesĀ is this one.

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These went through a phase of being stolen on a regular basis, so some now read Sandwich Ham

This road sign was pictured in a school mathematics book I used during the 1970s! For the life of me I cannot remember why it was in the book, but it might have been something to do with symmetry!

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On 4/18/2022 at 5:28 PM, J R Hartley said:

Spotted on the side of the Caley Sample Room pub in Edinburgh. An overgrown sign for Rootes Group service.Ā 

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WOW - Just wow , pinched the image for a Rootes group facebook page if thats OK :)

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I notice this gem every time I travel the A45 through Ryton. But where could I share such enthusiasm, I wonder.

Once again AS serves up a blinder. There's a few more in our little corner of the world, I will endeavour to record them now.

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I've seen this one in Crayford for years, the sign is quite new, but the wording to me seems a bit old fashioned:

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which is a bummer for these guys:

also, with all of the parked cars on Orchard Hill, a bit of a contradiction?

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