Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 21:06:07 GMT
I've found a photo of the original sign, you can see how old it is by the fact that most of the background black paint has flaked away, and that the white letters have almost completely turned black with the soot and exhaust of decades! This photo is also from Graham Smith's flickr account. www.flickr.com/photos/gravyphig/2242261643/Disregard his grammatically incorrect photo text. The station name changed in 1946, the sign didn't disappear.
|
|
|
Post by stapler on Feb 2, 2017 8:53:26 GMT
Not on film, but I used to enjoy the one on the side of a lineside house in Whitehall Gardens, Chingford (approaching the station) that advertised Low houses in Loughton and Chingford for sale from £475 freehold, even in the early 90s at those prices it must have been the 1890's. No, it was the 30s. Low (and I think I misremebered, it was Alfred Low, specialised in cheap houses, now affordable by the upper working class, thanks to the Halifax Building Society.) House prices fell over those decades. The Low houses stand yet, in Whitehall Gardens Chingford and Roding Rd Loughton. And the £475 houses now sell for £475000 (E4) and £488000 (IG10). Not a bad investment for those of great longevity...
|
|
|
Post by brigham on Feb 2, 2017 9:03:52 GMT
I've found a photo of the original sign, you can see how old it is by the fact that most of the background black paint has flaked away, and that the white letters have almost completely turned black with the soot and exhaust of decades! This photo is also from Graham Smith's flickr account. www.flickr.com/photos/gravyphig/2242261643/Disregard his grammatically incorrect photo text. The station name changed in 1946, the sign didn't disappear. Bizarrely, it appears to be the same sign, but on a different wall!
|
|
|
Post by grahamhewett on Feb 2, 2017 9:38:03 GMT
Mention of pointing hands - the subway at Oxford (before the last rebuild) used to have a pointing hand attached to a very carefully painted tweed cuff complete with buttons - only the GW and only in Oxford?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 16:49:45 GMT
I've found a photo of the original sign, you can see how old it is by the fact that most of the background black paint has flaked away, and that the white letters have almost completely turned black with the soot and exhaust of decades! This photo is also from Graham Smith's flickr account. www.flickr.com/photos/gravyphig/2242261643/Disregard his grammatically incorrect photo text. The station name changed in 1946, the sign didn't disappear. Bizarrely, it appears to be the same sign, but on a different wall! Bear in mind that there was another sign on the other side of the tracks also pointing to the station. One pointed north, one pointed south, which is why both hands point to the left.
|
|