Jameson Street Sign, Junction of Jameson Street and Ormeau Road, Ballynafeigh, Belfast, County Antrim, BT7 2GU

Freestanding street sign of c.1905 at the junction of Ormeau Road and Jameson Street, at the Southern end of Ormeau Road. The sign faces South South West and is located at back of public pavement between asphalt and block paving behind. A modern street lamp is immediately adjacent to the South East. This sign is typical of those used throughout the then Belfast Corporation area in the early to mid 20th century, being composed white on black encaustic tiles sporting slightly elongated sans serif lettering. The glazed tiles themselves are roughly 12cm high and of slightly varying widths according to the nature of the character thereon, with most displaying a white letter on a black background, in this case spelling JAMESON STREET (one word above the other.) They are set on what seems to be a cement back plate with additional blank tiles used to fill the extra space on the lower row at both ends. Moulded tiling frames the sign and this is encased with a mild steel angle frame, mitred and welded, which is attached to a pair of wrought iron angle posts. Frame and posts are painted black. The mild steel frame exhibits severe corrosion and delamination which has caused the tiled section to bow outwards, resulting in a vertical crack which runs through the sign centre. The tiled border exhibits loss of moulding to the left and bottom sides. Several letters have loss of infill which is seen to be 1/8" deep. Posts are clean with minor surface corrosion.