There's currently a national outcry over the rate traditional pub signs are disappearing from our streets. However, in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, one of their pub signs literally went missing...for over two years.
St John's Street, Ashbourne has a rare gallows sign stretching from one side of the road to the other, advertising the Green Man and Black's Head Royal Hotel. From the centre, high above the road, once hung a painted sign but it disappeared one day in 2006.
A local councillor, Denise Brown, made it her mission to recover it but, after many false leads, the sign was discovered quite by chance 25 miles away.
This historic landmark has now been returned to Ashbourne although it's still uncertain whether it will be replaced in its original position.
To read the full story of the disappearing Green Man, visit the Derby Evening Telegraph at the link below.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Mystery-missing-pub-sign-finally/article-351767-detail/article.html
St John's Street, Ashbourne has a rare gallows sign stretching from one side of the road to the other, advertising the Green Man and Black's Head Royal Hotel. From the centre, high above the road, once hung a painted sign but it disappeared one day in 2006.
A local councillor, Denise Brown, made it her mission to recover it but, after many false leads, the sign was discovered quite by chance 25 miles away.
This historic landmark has now been returned to Ashbourne although it's still uncertain whether it will be replaced in its original position.
To read the full story of the disappearing Green Man, visit the Derby Evening Telegraph at the link below.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Mystery-missing-pub-sign-finally/article-351767-detail/article.html
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