There is a strange habit in England of allowing old artefacts from the past simply to stay in place – often for many years. It doesn’t happen all the time of course – some people love to tidy away the past and make things shiny & modern, but it does happen often enough to be noticeable.
Here in Warslow village, they have left up the old sign for the Telephone & Telegrams Point. It appears to be around sixty years old, but does look as though someone wipes it off every so often, just to give it a clean.