Haydon Bridge station - the forty shilling penalty
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The photograph on this page of Haydon Bridge station - the forty shilling penalty by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Haydon Bridge station - the forty shilling penalty
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 15 Mar 2020
Signs like this can be seen in many places around the network, relating to old byelaws imposing a 40S (£2) penalty for various offences when that was a lot of money. Image gives a closer view.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
54.974947
Longitude
-2.24868