9:00am Friday 30th July 2010
MR DAY (Readers’ Times, July 8) is far from the first person to complain about the lack of street signs in Herefordshire as the following letter shows.
“To the Editor: May I suggest that all the streets of your fair town should have their names publicly attached to them? It would at least give a more business-like air to the place, and be of much assistance to strangers.
“South Street is nameless at the Royal Oak Hotel corner. West Street is not publicly christened at either of its ends – at the High Street end or at Bargates. Dishley Street might likewise have its name at its junction with Bargates. Corn Square might be so notified at the turn for Grange Walk.
“A direction post might be erected on the old Ludlow road, at the railway gates, at the end of Bridge Street; ditto at the end of Mill Street on the new Ludlow and Tenbury road. At Kington, Church Street bears no name.
“Will the local authorities be so good as to see to these matters?
“Yours obediently, Chas T Greenfield, of Weston-super-Mare.”
This letter was published in the Leominster News on December 18, 1896. It was re-published in the Leominster Historical Society Newsletter for Autumn 1996 with the following comment by the editor.
“I am glad to report that the name has been placed at the east end of West street. The others are still missing, together with those in New Street, Broad Street, Bridge Street, etc.
I have not been able to check Church Street, Kington. Let us hope that the council will put the matter right at a slightly faster rate than one every one hundred years.”
I have not dared to do a further check.
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