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On 5 November 2008, Applied Information Group managing director Kasper de Graaf gave a presentation to the Sign Design Society about the UK Border Visibility scheme delivered by the consultancy.

First issued in Directions 47

The train shed was designed by Victorian engineer William Barlow and when St Pancras was originally completed in 1868 the station had the largest single-span roof in the world, 100 feet high at its apex. As a result of Betjeman’s campaigning, St Pancras was designated a Grade 1 listed building in 1967 and over forty years’ later his influence still resonates. Betjeman wrote:

… the great arc of Barlow’s train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel…

First issued in Directions 46

Walking is something we used to do all the time, indeed in past times the majority of us walked everywhere, not only in our towns and cities but between them too.

First issued in Directions 45

By June Bretherton

Many years ago, I was asked to provide an article for the Institute of Navigation’s magazine about how blind people navigate. I was asked by the ‘Directions’ compilers if I could let them have a copy, but have decided that it would be more appropriate to write something up-to-date instead. There is a similarity in many aspects of finding your way when you cannot use sight to that implemented by sailors out in the depths of the ocean.