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Introduce yourself to 'Innsignia'
1st October 2016
Welcome to the Inn Sign Society website. Find information on what the Society does, Inn signs, origins of Pub names, and how to join us.
For ONLY £15 a year, you receive 4 quarterly 32 page full colour illustrated Journals packed with articles on all types of inn and pub signs, plus a look by county at "What's INN a name?"
Members can access our Archives, plus feature pages; ‘Signs of the Month’,'Sign of the Year’ award, & 'Lost Signs'.
Enjoy your visit & you may wish to become a member.
Don't delay, join today! More photos on Facebook page @InnSignSoc
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Lost Signs - Members' Area + FB
1st October 2016
On this new feature page in the Members' Area ISS members will be able once again to help identify 'Lost Signs' i.e. those un-named slides from scanned collections.
If any of you 'sign detectives' know the proper name, location and/or date of any sign, just email the page manager. There are some very good ones there that need a place in the Archives!
More located this week !
Also posted on ISS Facebook Lost Signs page @LostInnSigns
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Signs of the Month
17th September 2016
In our Members' area the 'Signs of the Month' feature for September is
"Last of the Summer moon"
Inn signs featuring our nearest neighbour in space in all its forms.
Another superb set of sign photos from Martin Norman.
*Members* - We need your contributions to Signs of the Month.
If you have your own favourite collection of up to 24 sign photos, just use the contact email link on SOTM page to arrange for them to be displayed for all to enjoy.
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2017 Sign of the Year Entries
1st October 2016
First entries arriving for the 2017 Sign of the Year Award
Shown here: The 'Linford' in Leicestershire.
See members' SOTY page for the entries and more details!
All members can participate. Start finding and snapping next year's winner now! See the entries in the member's area.
The submission of entries for SOTY can be submitted up to next May, with the result announced at the 2017 AGM.
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Latest ISS Archive DVDs - 1940-2015
1st October 2016
Our Archivist Brian Curtis has completed the latest edition of Archive DVDs containing over 26,000 signs available in our Archives.
Due to the large volume of the PDFs which depict these Archives he has programmed two disks;
One for archives from 1940 to 1999, and the other for archives from 2000
See inside Members' section 'History & Archives' for ordering details.
Don't miss out on this invaluable resource for your sign researches!
*Download the latest (May 2016) ISS Archive TEXT ONLY PDF
from the contacts page*
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