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Dalston
Parish Council plans to restore 40 signs in all. Some just require
painting others need remaking and relocating in areas where they're
likely to survive in the future.
Whilst I've been painting people passing have stopped to say
what a good job it is and how the signs are easier to use than
the modern new ones |
| Brian
Craig is a parish councillor and lives in Dalston |
Brian
Craig is a parish councillor and lives in Dalston. He's just finished
painting his post in the standard black and white livery and says
"Whilst I've been painting people passing have stopped to say
what a good job it is and how the signs are easier to use than the
modern new ones".
David
Marsden is a retired local resident and completed his signpost in
20 hours. He says "Everybody loves them, they think they're
great, I live in a small village and the number of people who've
stopped to say how good it is...it's great. Having done it I've
noticed around North Cumbria an awful lot of signs that are in need
of repair".
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the signposts just look like rusty steel tubes |
Not
all the work can be completed by volunteers. Twenty five posts have
suffered damage from the impact of large vehicles, resulting in
broken fingers or leaning posts.
The
Vice Chairman of the Parish Council, Alan Jackson, says " the
next stage is to have the rest of the posts repaired by a company
that specialises in building the fingers and brackets for the fingers
to be slotted back onto the sign".
Dalston
Parish Council has gathered funding from a variety of sources. The
early sponsors include First Aid for Cumbria and Neighbourhood Forum.
A condition of the funding requires parishioners to research into
the history of the place names and where the signs were originally
made.
The
Parish hopes the project will be completed before winter.
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