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Above and below are a few of the\u00a0distinctive street signage dotted the Trafford area.\u00a0They appear on the roads\u00a0enclosed between Ayres Road and Talbot Road, with Hullard Park and Shrewsbury\u00a0Street on the other sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve long been fascinated by these signs so set out last year to document them.\u00a0My plan was\u00a0to photograph the mosaicked signs in full, then\u00a0focus on the colourful\u00a0designs\u00a0that accompanied each one.\u00a0They’re all beautiful creations and I’d love to know more about their history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m sharing the best results here, but there’s a few I failed to photograph and others that were slightly out-of-focus. I expect I’ll get around to re-photographing them during the summertime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Above and below are a few of the\u00a0distinctive street signage dotted the Trafford area.\u00a0They appear on the roads\u00a0enclosed between Ayres Road and Talbot Road, with Hullard Park and Shrewsbury\u00a0Street on the other sides. I’ve long been fascinated by these signs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Trafford's Mosaicked Street Signs. Documenting the distinctive street signs that are dotted around a small area of Trafford.\n","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[63],"tags":[118,125,124,122,120,123,117,121,116,119,115,126],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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