Sign Siren

Yes, I think I know him. Shocking the way he runs round uncontrolled like that.

This is the sign for the men’s toilets in the Stockport Air Raid Shelters. Opened in 1939, at the start of World War Two, they were the ...

I like Victorian industrial buildings. Victorians loved to make even the most functional structures look beautiful, and sometimes slight...

This sign in Portugal Street, London WC2, caught my eye. It’s on the old head office building of WH Smith. The sign was damaged by shrap...

This spooky sign inviting you to enter a tomb was on a grave in St Paul’s, Shadwell, East London. The church is close to the docks ...

This sign made me smile – it’s the inverted commas that amuse me. What are they meant to convey, I wonder? Just how wild was this fish? ...

I took this a few years ago in Anglesey. It was on the door of a works lock-up at the (completely fabulous) Parys slate mine. I though...