This ordinary local sign is pretty humdrum at first glance.
Until you realise that it is warning drivers on York Lane about St Mary's RC Primary School, which moved from grounds here to East London Street almost 20 years ago.
The school premises were converted into flats in about 2004, but the sign remained and now – battered and twisted – serves only to slow what is a surely a small number of unwary drivers starting from the closed-off nothernmost part of the lane.
Some may regard it as a blot on the streetscape, but Spurtle wonders whether the sign has now survived long enough to count as an historic monument worthy of preservation.
What do readers think? Have you seen any other pointless and/or historic signs around Broughton?
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