OpenStreetMap
It has been a mighty long time since I documented some Street Art (the last was some Lions in Gedling, Gedling’s obsession with stick-men, then in Wollaton Avenue but the main last entry was back in November).
This first is Gedling’s variation on Nottingham’s Plaster Boys ‘n’ Girls:–
(that variation appears to be positioning them on the street such that motorists get a sporting chance to mow the actual schoolchildren down, and only then are presented with a line of Plaster Children to warn them not to do so) (the school entrance is behind the photographer & in front of these school_sentrys) (also, notice how Mapillary has carefully blurred every face)
See also:– > man_made=school_sentry
Next is a house-elf (at his feet are rescued cobbles from a Nottingham street):–
Update 4 July 2022
Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that used photos stored in Mapillary in the old format are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I hope also on yours).
Discussion
Comment from Warin61 on 17 April 2017 at 10:10
The ‘children’ can be made into old fashioned ‘silent cops’.
Base is a steel coil spring .. as fitted to some car suspensions. Equip the children with steel shoulders.
Vehicle hits ‘child’, child bounces out of the way .. but springs back repetitively down the vehicles body work. Smash repairers were quite well acquainted with the damaged caused by these ‘silent cops’ .. some of the ‘cops’ got quite battered. Usually placed on corners where people would try to ‘cut the corner’ or in the center of a road junction. Very effective deterrent … the smash repairers probably subsidized there construction.
In South Australia they use wooden 2 dimension children to signify when you should slow down for school zones .. they put them in the middle of the road so people cannot say they did not see them. Not seen any of them the worse for lack of driver attention. I think if you hit one you’d have a bit of explaining to do. They may have stopped doing this .. all those electronic flashing signs .. pity, I quite liked the individuality of them.
Comment from alexkemp on 17 April 2017 at 10:34
With the size of many English roads — and the size of some of the SUVs using them — a
school_sentinelpositioned in the middle of the road would not last 24 hours. I like the sound of those “silent cops”, though.