By: Alistair Hall

Date: 2020

Keyword(s): Historical photos

Location: London, England, Europe

Resource Type: Book / Publication

London Street Signs is a visual history of London’s street nameplates—the signs which detail the name of each road. They are a remarkable archive of lettering, a unique collection of styles and forms that stretches right back to the seventeenth century. They hide in plain sight, these modest labels; we use their information daily, but too often fail to really notice them. They are visual anchors, telling us where we are, but temporal anchors too, telling us where we’ve come from.