£250
A red and cream painted wooden sign, This Whistle to be Blown ..... Fire, (six lines of text,), 39 x 51 cm.
Provenance; ex H&BR's Springhead Works, collected with the permission of the demolition team around 1980 when the works were demolished.
The Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company (HB&WRJR&DCo.) was opened on 20 July 1885. The name was changed to The Hull and Barnsley Railway (H&BR) in 1905. The Springhead Works were built on green-field land north of the main line outside the then area of urbanisation of Hull.
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