Village Signs

Past & Present

in very approximate chronological order        most recent at the end >>

Charles Mann’s shop sign in The Square in the early 1900s

 

This Shell sign was displayed

on Charles Mann’s shop in

The Square in the early 1900s

           

Globes on the petrol pumps in The Square in the 1920s to 1940s.

filling station history

 

 

Millers and corn merchants

at The Mill in Fish St in the early 1900s

 

 

The Cricketers Inn sign

in the early 1900s

The Cricketers Inn double sided sign

In the 1970s – 2010 period.

Both were oil paintings of W G Grace.

The artist is unknown.

butchers in Head Street during the 1930s to 1960s

more about... lost shops

Russells Gravesend brewery sign outside The Chequers in the early 1900s

The Goldhanger Friendly Brothers

plaque in The Chequers

 

Sign over the bakers shop window at No. 2 Fish Street in the 1950s to the 1970s

a Christmas card from Stanley Wilkin at Bounds Farm in 1942

 

beam inside the bus shelter in The Square engraved with these words:

TO COMMEMORATE THE CORONATION OF H M KING GEORGE VI AD 1937

This sign appeared outside

several different shops in the village

that served as the Post Office

this was the one over the shop in The Square in the 1940s-1950s

In 2023 it was auctioned for over £200

Sergeants Mess sign from the

WW-1 Flight Station at Gardener Farm

A recent plaque placed on Osea Island

See...  HMS Osea

Sign used on a delivery lorry in the 1940s

belonging to Rex Page,

fruit grower who operated from

the Old Rectory farm

a cast iron wagon plate made by the Maldon Iron Works

probably in the 1950s

Top hat house sign on the

front gate of Hatters Lodge

in The Square

a Pan Signs advertisement from the 1960s.

The business operated from the

Church St. Coach House

by Goldhanger House, the former Rectory

now called Padmalayam

the Bunting Bros Land Drainage business

 operated from a barn on Joyces Chase

The filling station in Church St sold several different brands of petrol between the 1940s and 1980s. The Bulldog sign stayed

for several years.

filling station history

 

 

 

Road sign on the Maldon Road

between the 1960s and 1980s

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Wells developed the

Agricultural and Domestic Museum

in Church St during

the1970s and 1980s

 

Verine Products operated from Follyfaunts

Between the 1960s and 90s, producing and

marketing reproduction classic fireplaces

and garden ornaments

 

A badge designed for St Peters

Bellringers jumpers and shirts

around the year 2000

 

The Goldhanger Argyle

football team badge used

between the 1980s and 2015

 

 

A beer mat produced for the

2014 WW-1 centenary to

celebrate the role of the

Goldhanger Flight Station in

our defence against Zeppelins

 

North Maldon Growers Ltd

owed by a group of

local farmers and based

on the Little Totham Road

 

 

 

The Post Office was located

on the Maldon Rd

between the 1950s & 1990s

 

 

 

 

a table mat produced by the

Goldhanger Classic Car Club

that was formed in 2003

 

 

 

 

 

brass plaques on the Village Pump

that were placed on the pump

after a restoration project in 2012

Cricketers Inn sign

from 2015 to 2017

Gardeners Farm shop logo

from the early 2000s onwards

The Salty Dogs Tearooms were in

The Square between 2013 & 2016

                 

     1970s-80s sign                           1990s sign                                2008 on sign

The Chequers history

Phil Glover - Chequers Landlord, 2009-2018

2000-2017

poster & sign

village school history

2018 onwards sign

Signs at the head of the Creek

The village sign

on the Maldon Road

was installed in 2005

(not maybe the most recent but

probably the most impressive)

 

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