Sign for The Woodman
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Sign for The Woodman by Jonathan Kington as part of the Geograph project.
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Sign for The Woodman
Image: © Jonathan Kington Taken: 19 Jan 2011
This wonderful plaster relief sign is above the door of Image It depicts a rather youthful looking woodman carrying his axe amongst the trees and undergrowth, the ferns are shown as being nearly as tall as the trees. In the past the role of the woodman was to take care of the royal forests, giving him the status of being an important person. It seems a little strange to find a public house with this name near the centre of Hanley, one of the six former towns that now make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.025412
Longitude
-2.172711