I'm on the Working Party concerning the Lucozade Sign, here's the state of play as I understand it.The sign was taken down and parts are preserved in the Gunnersbury Museum. That was the easy bit.The harder part was building a new sign and finding somewhere to put it. In (I think) June, planning permission was granted for a two storey extension to the building next to the Texaco Garage on the north side of the A4. Permission was granted for two illuminated advertisements on the sides of this new extension, one facing traffic leaving London, the other facing incoming traffic. An advertising company applied for this permission; the condition being that the revenue from the side facing westbound traffic paid for the running of an identical copy of the Lucozade Sign, currently being constructed by specialists in Catford.Now, I'd expected construction to have started by now and a call to some of the other working party members is on my to-do list - I will report back, hopefully next week, on how long it will be before the sign is up and running once again.(By the way, it was impractical to restore the old sign, but I was assured that the new sign will be an exact copy, down to the sequencing of the bubbles).
Matt Harmer ● 7219d