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There certainly used to be one in Sydenham.

dg writes: At least two.
Alas replaced with poor copies.

I think the bottom panel on Theobalds Road May have been deliberately removed as the right turn is no longer permitted at that junction.
Some here too:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=90823635
Love those fractions...

The Theobalds Road sign definitely had its lowest panel removed as a result of the right-turn ban. I remember being worried when the ban came in that they'd remove the sign altogether, so it was a relief that they only removed one panel.

No such explanation for the Brownlow Road sign as the right turn is still permitted. Perhaps that one is just down to vandalism.
I like the one on the weird shaped roundabout outside Southgate station.

Not really much use if you're driving as it isn't that visible from any of the approaches.
I walked past the 'finger post' sign every day on my way to school. With the Cherry Tree pub in the background, you really are playing with my nostalgia, DG ...

Cheers
Good to see. Brownlow Road and Muswell Hill are both local to my childhood, indeed the. Muswell Hill sign is very close to my birthplace. I would call the NC Road crossing the BOTTOM of Brownlow Road, having first met it on foot (or in a pram probably), but it would be the top on a map.
There's one (white on a yellow background) on the A3210 (Upper Brighton Road) at the end of Victoria Road in Surbiton. I think it's just after the railway bridge if you're coming up from the Kingston By-pass, though it might be before). It points right to Surbiton Station. For pilgrims, it would be a five minute walk from the station. It must be the most interesting thing in the town.

dg writes: Probably this one.
Seeing the "finger post" brought back memories of long cycle rides in rural Middlesex in the late 1950's.
I know of a cast iron sign saying "UNSUITABLE FOR CHARABANCS" but won't say where it is in case anyone does it any harm.
Re Kinneir and Calvert - If someone told me that something I'm designing now would still be used and admired 50 years later, I'd bite their hand off.
I came across one - with a yellow surround - just recently in Abbey Wood, SE2: it's on the Woolwich-bound side of McLeod Rd.

dg writes: Perhaps this one.
I think those finger-post signs can be found in many a rural village Certainly there is on in the Somerset village my in-laws lived in.

I'm also sure I've seen several of what I just termed as "old signs" without realising there was an actual Act to replace them.

Even more things to keep my eye open for now!
There is (or was) one on Belsize Road in Kilburn. Oddly, the Google streetview history shows that it has been removed and replaced (presumably after repainting)

dg writes: On Flickr here.
I understood that these older design signs have something to do with the Festival of Britain. I am sure that I watched a TV programme which explained that the Festival in 1951 spurred the first post-war concerted effort to rebuild signage in a consistent fashion.
I believe many road signs were removed during the war, so if the Germans invaded they wouldn't be able to find their way!
The finger board at Southgate Green and several other in The London Borough of Enfield have been locally listed.

dg writes: Six are listed, and listed here.
The old fingerpost signs seem to me to be far better for navigation around London than anything that superseded them.

When I first found myself driving in London my destination would have a street name and a postcode, and I'd have a map like an AtoZ. The clearest indications on the map are the route numbers, which are most prominent on the fingerpost signs.

Subsequent signs went for a system which would be uniform over the whole country, prioritising town/suburb names. This is fine if you are trying to locate a town or village but in London I'd have little idea where Southgate or Finchley was, but every idea that I wanted to drive on the A1003.
The Aldwych set mentioned in the Geograph link above disappeared in 2012 (part of the Olympics tidy up project?) but can be found with difficulty on Google Streetview images for 2008 and 2009. For example on the traffic island outside India House.
Many of those pictured are very familiar reminders of my north London upbringing.

Here in Hertfordshire we've been through a 2-3 year programme where very many seemingly perfectly acceptable signs, even on B roads, have been replaced by new but identical ones. Inexplicable in days of austerity, I await the revelation as to which member of the county council has 'close ties' with the signage manufacturer!
Potters Lane in High Barnet for one of the pre-Warboys red triangle warning plates on a black and while pole -- Road Narrows

dg writes: On Flickr here.
My least favourite type of modern road sign: you don't have much clue where you are and just want one sign to help you get your bearings and put you back on track. Finally you find one. It says 'Town Centre'
Always thought these were so much more attractive, readable and informative than the post-Worboys examples.
I cant wait for the 29th March when all the so-called roadsigns will be torn down and replaced by proper British cast iron Farago-Mogg Signs™ ᴵ ᵂᴬᴺᵀ ᴹʸ ᶜᴼᵁᴺᵀᴿʸ ᴮᴬᶜᴷ ᴵᴺ ᵀᴴᴱ ᴺᴵᴺᴱᵀᴱᴱᴺᵀᴴ ˢᴱᴺᶜᴴᵁᴿʸ

*foams at mouth* *goes to wetherspoons*
A large number of the Somerset fingerposts referred to by Cornish Cockney are still in position, although they are now becoming tatty as in the interests of economy they are no longer being maintained. The council will allow volunteers to "adopt" signs and look after them, but owing to the mountain of bureaucracy involved there probably won't be many takers.
There was a pre Worboys sign at Euston which said Kings Cross ½, Holborn 1, Marylebone ½. HS2 took it down last summer :(
A favourite of mine is from when the A2 went through the High Street in Canterbury https://goo.gl/maps/prFmxqNZW7k
A regards the earlier comment about Somerset signs, particularly fingerposts, there has been a project recently to rejuvenate all the finger posts that has been extremely successful particularly on Exmoor. Details of the project are here.
I don't know if it was general, but in South Yorkshire, where I grew up, the circle above the fingerposts contained an Ordnance Survey grid reference -- useful for walkers and cyclists.
Yes, you identified correctly in terms of the photo you placed to the one at Abbey Wood.

I was out that way again and stopped to take a proper look at it. It was a surprise to see how many individual bits it was made out of - little square, rectangular and triangular sections of aluminium - all pieced together edge to edge. Real 'old school' craftsmanship.










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