How Can You Lose A Road Sign?

[David H]

As a collector of old road sign photos, I travel around with the camera and decided to go to the A22 after a couple of years for an unusual no parking sign I noted as being on the short stretch between East Grinstead and Forest Row, probably on the east side and partly covered in leaves. It looks like a road name and remember it being on a layby/junction. It's a couple of miles long, and having spent two evenings on Google walking it backwards and forwards, including the earlier view, I am stumped. I hardly expect many people to live there to check, but I don't think I got the road mixed up (very few N-S A roads that way to do so), it's Sussex and not beyond Forest Row so where has it gone? No rewards for the finder except the satisfaction and seeing the only photo of it on the internet when I go and get one.

[SpikeyBush]

Maybe some tealeaf pinched it to be melted down for scrap. They'd nick owt that's not nailed down.

[Mosaic]

Around here anything aluminium, not closely watched and out in the open gets removed by kind volunteer recyclers. And grid covers, manhole covers. And your garden tools.

[SpikeyBush]

and if it was nailed down they'd half-inch what it was nailed to as well

[jno]

maybe it's not No Parking any more so they took the sign away?

[David H]

Sorry, I may have misled a little, I can't find it on Streetview, which doesn't change (or keeps archives when it does). I didn't see it when I was there or I'd have taken a photo at the time, and now can't get the exact location online to return. Any ideas gratefully accepted.

[Maydup]

To clarify ... you saw the sign in real life a couple of years ago on the A22 but cannot locate it now, either in real life or on streetview. Is that the situation?

And had it been removed it should still appear in streetview either currently or in their archives?

I can only conclude that your search has been thorough and that you original siting was mistaken. Not that stretch of road at all.

[David H]

No, I saw it two years ago on Streetview, noted the stretch of road but lost the exact spot. When I looked again online last week on a short stretch a couple of miles long there was no clue it was there. I'm pretty sure it was on a widened bit so narrows down the location even more.

[Baldric]

This one, near where we used to live 'vanished' quite often, think it became a bit of a collectors item

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJoN2duRS9SYfHivn5ci-BCMfNr-GzLCR771m7FR0zJZIgfwhQ

[trt]

Phone the highways department.

[David H]

Ham Sandwich is actually in the I Spy book from the 60s and very famous. I could call the council but firstly they don't know all the old signs on their patch, and secondly if you tell them there's a pre 1964 around most are bound to remove them. It has to be on Streetview somewhere and there's no other A road for miles, and I made a note of the general location elsewhere at the time in case someone could get a photo to see it properly so unlikely to have got mixed up but never know. Maybe someone here lives near East Grinstead, it has happened with other signs I needed in the past.

[Hopkirk]

Not what you are looking for, but I love this genuine road name in Bristol

http://internationaltimes.it/wp-content/uploads/serendipity3.jpg