Iconic signs restored at the Black Country Living Museum
Iconic signs at the Black Country Living Museum well be restored over the next few months in a £700 project.
Seven signs will be refreshed and re-written in total from elaborate shop front designs to others warning not to feed the pigs.
Clare Weston, curator of domestic cultural life at the heritage site, said: "We're refreshing the signage around the site. Signwriting itself is a very important part of 'set dressing' the museum and historically these types of signs would have been done freehand after being chalked out. It is an art form that we are proud to preserve at Black Country Living Museum."
The work is being done by signwriter Dave Perks who has carried out restoration work at the Dudley-based attraction in the past. He has well and truly embraced his surroundings by wearing old-fashioned clothes to blend in with the other actors at the living museum.
The first sign to be restored was the one above the door of the J.Wiltshire pawn broker's. It features more than a dozen words detailing what items the shop would have accepted at the time.
