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The man who loves cleaning road signs in Wales

27 Sep 2024 2 minute read
John Edwards at work in Wrexham (Credit: John Edwards)

John Edwards has a very unconventional hobby – he loves cleaning road signs.

John, who is from Shrewsbury, loves nothing better than to see a grubby road sign transformed to its former glory.

His love of cleaning road signs in places such as Wrexham, Chirk and Newtown have gained him many plaudits from locals in Wales.

This month he headed across the border from his home to clean road signs on the Wrexham/Shropshire border free of charge.

After much praise for John for his efforts and work from locals, he returned to undertake some cleaning in Chirk.

John, who confesses he ‘loves’ cleaning has set up his own sign cleaning Facebook page in an attempt to get others to start cleaning signs.

John told the Wrexham Leader: “I just love having fun cleaning signs!

“I was looking to clean a Shropshire/Wales border sign a few weeks back and the response was so amazing I went back last week to clean up the whole high street.

“After the lovely response to the signs I cleaned by the Bridge Inn last week I felt obliged to return to finish the job off.

“A few signs are yellow, old and sun damaged but most of the reflective signs I found along the road got a good scrub.

“Yes, the social media response is a joy and the idea of my Facebook group is to duplicate myself so others can clean signs in their own areas.”

And by the way if you were wondering, John doesn’t do his cleaning topless, that’s actually a t-shirt he’s wearing in the pictures!

Pics of John’s handiwork (All images credit: John Edwards)


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Robert Davro
Robert Davro
12 days ago

Who is supposed to keep the signs clean and why aren’t they doing it?

Les Cargot
Les Cargot
12 days ago

Thanks mate, any chance of tackling all those 20 mph signs that have been vandalised?

Richard Davies
Richard Davies
12 days ago

What a fantastic thing John Edwards is doing, cleaning road signs.

I presume responsibility is with local councils/highways agency for maintenance of road signs.

I’m not fit enough to do so myself but I would happily donate to a fund raiser for this to continue.

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