J3672 : Orby Parade sign, Belfast

taken 13 years ago, 3 km from Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Orby Parade sign, Belfast
Orby Parade sign, Belfast
I remember reading about some American tourists trying to navigate their way to a B&B in Belfast. What frustrated then was not the absence of street signs but the inconsistency in where they were placed – some were high up on buildings, some were at waist level on posts and some, such as this one, at the Orby Drive J3672 : Orby Drive, Belfast (2) end of Orby Parade – were very low.
The street signs of Belfast

Note added 19 March 2012. Following representation made to this website I am now aware that publication of a photograph of a street name sign might be an offence under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. I was not aware of this when submitting. This note is to confirm that I have now stopped taking photographs of street name signs. If you object to any already submitted please click “Suggest an update to this image” and make your views known to a moderator.
The present Belfast City Council inherited a wide variety of street-name signs from the old Belfast Corporation. They included cast and tiled signs from the Victorian and Edwardian era, pressed white-on-black and even some which had been hand-painted. The more recent styles are, in the main, similar to those elsewhere in Northern Ireland although there are still ones of local interest – bilingual, incorporating housing association logos and decorative. One recent innovation has been the provision of modern signs in the style of the old tiled variety but incorporating the name of the “Quarter” used for tourist and marketing purposes.

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J3672, 37 images   (more nearby search)
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Date Taken
Wednesday, 10 August, 2011   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Geographical Context
Suburb, Urban fringe  Roads, Road transport 
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 366 728 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:35.1105N 5:53.2517W
Camera Location
Irish: geotagged! J 366 728
View Direction
Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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