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Graffiti? Or civic duty?
Sometimes if the council don’t listen, you have to take matters into your own hands… https://www.threads.com/@road_oddities/post/DRHIW5ijXoH
How times have changed…
Just outside Upper Weald, this sign would have also pre-dated Milton Keynes. You can see from the side-by-side map below that Stony Stratford was pretty much the only thing around in the area! These days you would not access Stony Stratford via the A5 from here, of course. https://www.threads.com/@road_oddities/post/DREtRy5CGDF/
Milton Keynes? Who’s she?
This ancient sign pointing down the old Watling Street (adjacent to the V4 grid road) must pre-date Milton Keynes existing… A bit optimistic to signpost London as well! Below shown as it would have been before the formation of Milton Keynes. https://www.threads.com/@road_oddities/post/DRC1DAGCCjn
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