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Hipsburn, roundabout finger signpost
At the Hipsburn roundabout, with Alnmouth village and the beach to the east (the right).
As the "finger" sign indicates, Alnmouth railway station is up to the left here.
This junction has been here for some time, forming part of the busy route from Alnmouth inland to Alnwick and beyond, and also for the north-south "coast road", with Lesbury and Boulmer straight ahead, and Warkworth and Amble some way behind the viewer.
The roundabout seems to have appeared here sometime in the 1950s or 1960s -- an era when Britain started building highway roundabouts in earnest!
The signpost pole seems to be the original one, although up until 2014 it was painted a drab greyish green. The "retro" stripes (as per the days of the war when visibility for drivers at low luminosity was vital) were added about 2016, and the ornate rounded finial top on the pole also placed there.
A close-up of the base of this pole does show what could be a drilled hole, which could only have been for an electric cable -- was there a light atop it at some point ?
The roundabout has had a variety of signs and illuminated arrows and water hydrants with slabs and concrete marker posts on its surface, but now is pleasantly plain, save for this pole.
This village is named after the Hip Burn which starts a short way inland and feeds into the Aln estuary not too far to the right from this image.
Hipsburn, roundabout finger signpost
At the Hipsburn roundabout, with Alnmouth village and the beach to the east (the right).
As the "finger" sign indicates, Alnmouth railway station is up to the left here.
This junction has been here for some time, forming part of the busy route from Alnmouth inland to Alnwick and beyond, and also for the north-south "coast road", with Lesbury and Boulmer straight ahead, and Warkworth and Amble some way behind the viewer.
The roundabout seems to have appeared here sometime in the 1950s or 1960s -- an era when Britain started building highway roundabouts in earnest!
The signpost pole seems to be the original one, although up until 2014 it was painted a drab greyish green. The "retro" stripes (as per the days of the war when visibility for drivers at low luminosity was vital) were added about 2016, and the ornate rounded finial top on the pole also placed there.
A close-up of the base of this pole does show what could be a drilled hole, which could only have been for an electric cable -- was there a light atop it at some point ?
The roundabout has had a variety of signs and illuminated arrows and water hydrants with slabs and concrete marker posts on its surface, but now is pleasantly plain, save for this pole.
This village is named after the Hip Burn which starts a short way inland and feeds into the Aln estuary not too far to the right from this image.