‘A welcome guide to the visitor in a strange land’
Ann Williams explores Dorset’s links to a 1920 decorative village signs competition
Published in June ’21
The plaque to Charles II and the ‘unfortunate’ Duke of Monmouth
KING Edward VII is remembered for many reasons, not all of them to his credit, and an association with decorative village signs is not generally the first thing that comes to mind about him. Yet it was he who first encouraged people to design signs reflecting the individual nature of their community, and the art of village signs grew up around the Royal family’s Sandringham Estate in …
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