Shite Old Road Signs

[Lord Sterling]

Here's  a few I've spotted over time:

Spotted in Selly Oak/Harborne border. Now since gone:

Spotted in Harborne, not sure if its still there but certainly from around the 50s/60s maybe earlier given the language used:

A non-motoring sign spotted in Bewdley but still old and interesting nonetheless.

[Ghosty]

At the summit of the M62 - all the letters have fallen off.

 

[busmansholiday]

OK, they are Google Street View, but I see these regularly on the A61 on the way home from Sheffield.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Not that far from me will keep an eye out next time I pass

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, Ghosty said:

At the summit of the M62 - all the letters have fallen off.

 

So, inSIGNifecent?

[busmansholiday]

 

[PhilA]

3 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

 

"This bridge was intentionally under-engineered"

[Jack D]

Located at the motor museum in Bourton-on-the-Water.  
 

 

 

[J R Hartley]

Old AA call box at St Mary's Loch.

 

[LessThanEqual]

Excuse the steet view screenshot, this one is a few miles from me. Holland county council hasn't existed since 1974 so older than that yet still maintained.

[martc]

Chinley, High Peaks. This has been recently repainted by the council. Nice to see the modern nature reserve sign added to it much later is in the same style.

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, martc said:

Chinley, High Peaks. This has been recently repainted by the council. Nice to see the modern nature reserve sign added to it much later is in the same style.

There's some obscure law about things in an area of historic interest/beauty or somesuch having to be in keeping - hence the skinny yellow line. My mate pointed the lines out to me in the Yorkshire Dales years ago 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

On 6/24/2022 at 7:14 PM, bunglebus said:

There's some obscure law about things in an area of historic interest/beauty or somesuch having to be in keeping - hence the skinny yellow line. My mate pointed the lines out to me in the Yorkshire Dales years ago 

Hell to pay if they don't! 

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/weald/news/garish-yellow-lines-ruining-our-prettiest-streets-251929/

[J R Hartley]

There's a lot of these in Cumbria. 

 

[J R Hartley]

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, J R Hartley said:

That is calling for both “do not paint” and “please restore me” in equal measure

[Garythesnail]

I know there's going to be similarities in language but to find that the Welsh words eglwys fechan relates directly to Ecclesfechan has made me a smile.

[High Jetter]

No 'S' tho. Symp restore, please.

[Richard_FM]

The Peak District still had quite a few 30 signs with a flat topped 3 well into the late 1990s, & possibly more recently on some side roads.

[J R Hartley]

On 7/13/2022 at 8:49 PM, Garythesnail said:

I know there's going to be similarities in language but to find that the Welsh words eglwys fechan relates directly to Ecclesfechan has made me a smile.

 

Fun fact:

The place name Ecclefechan is Welsh in origin and Lockerbie is of Norse origin. 

 

[martc]

Duggleby, near Malton, still there about 90 minutes ago.

[Alan_Green]

Ancient signs on the M3 where it meets ye olde M25.  You can hardly read it and drivers are always making last minute lane swerve manoeuvres.  Funny thing is there's roadworks around here every night.  Bizarre that no one has ever thought to splash out a couple of quid on some new lettering.  I bet there's some sort of M3 vs M25 budget vagueness.

[martc]

2001 (could be 1931)

Still there, last time Google visited.

[warch]

On 7/13/2022 at 8:49 PM, Garythesnail said:

I know there's going to be similarities in language but to find that the Welsh words eglwys fechan relates directly to Ecclesfechan has made me a smile.

Of course Welsh was the main language for much of what is now England and central Scotland for quite a long time, hence the Strathclyde (Welsh) Kingdom of north-west England and South West Scotland in the early medieval period (after the Romans buggered off).

[Mudster]

Not old, but certainly shite, they’ve installed Australian traffic signals at M1 junction 26. 

[Alusilber]

6 hours ago, warch said:

Of course Welsh was the main language for much of what is now England and central Scotland for quite a long time, hence the Strathclyde (Welsh) Kingdom of north-west England and South West Scotland in the early medieval period (after the Romans buggered off).

Welsh, or Brittonic/Brythonic as it was back the days of the Ancient Britons. Some reckon Pictish in the north of (what is now) Scotland was much the same thing too.

[warch]

15 minutes ago, Alusilber said:

Welsh, or Brittonic/Brythonic as it was back the days of the Ancient Britons. Some reckon Pictish in the north of (what is now) Scotland was much the same thing too.

Welsh being an exonymic term for the Brythonic god bothering people of the British Isles coins by pagan settlers from Northern Europe. I kind of love how history refuses to play ball for various modern day nationalist movements due to cultural reach. 

[worldofceri]

As you can obseve, my daughter is now too old for a perambulator, and I am fortunately too young to require an invalid carriage.  But we were heartened to find that those fiendish horseless carriages would not irk us whilst traversing this narrow thoroughfare in Sheringham, Norfolk.

[bunglebus]

Side street in Sutton Coldfield 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Shot in 2010. Them signs look a bit faded.

Google 2021, they're still a bit faded