Street Furniture

Review by AB. The term ‘street furniture’ encompasses a wide range of everyday objects that are found along roads and in towns and cities around the world, from manhole covers and postboxes to bus stops and cabman’s shelters. In this book, Lynn Pearson looks at the street furniture of the UK and explores how it has changed over time, taking the reader from Roman milestones and 17th-century turnpike posts, through the introduction of standardised road signs, drinking fountains, and public toilets, all the way up to modern environmentally friendly lamp posts and electric-vehicle charging points. The book is sorted by category, with each chapter discussing different elements of str