I am not the only one 'collecting' these glimpses of the past – Sam, Mr Ghostsigns, has organised a free scavenger hunt to on the afternoon of Saturday 21st April with the aim to make a database. If you are going to join in I'd suggest a bit of pre-event sleuthing via google streetview which will save time shoe leather.
I won't be able to join in that day as I will be leading events of my own so, to help anyone who is going to join in on the days I thought I'd give you a heads-up and pull together all the NE signs I have collected myself. Well, I say 'all' but I mean the ones I have labelled and filed correctly – I am pretty sure I have other photos in a folder on my desktop titled "to name and file"!
As regards the design of these enamel signs, I notice that there is no fixed punctuation style – colons, commas, full points and semi-colons appear to be interchangeable.
Along my travels I have also found some North (N.) and South East (S.E.) signs from the same era :
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These signs from Hackney and Southwark are the same style as the N.E. signs including the typefaces, casing and fixings. |
More types of street name signs in the Clapton area can be found here.
And this post, also from 10 years ago, shows a variety of road name changes.
Evering Road is N when you look behind the drainpipe. It's right on the border, but definitely N. Have just tweeted with some pictures that I'd love to get a copy of so that I can create a montage of all known NE survivors.
ReplyDeleteIs it really it an N, and not an NE? Seems odd that I wouldn't have checked when I was there taking the photo. But OK!
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