Image courtesy David Gaylard
Today's conundrum: how does one point round a corner? The manicule is a pointing hand, often with cuffs, used to indicate important information in advertising, signs and other material. Here, the street nameplate has been deliberately shaped to fit round the right-angled corner. The angle-iron bolted to the brickwork below it indicates that the corner bears some wear and tear. The condition of the manicule's index finger bears this out. The attractive dark blue background bears the manicule plus large and small caps in a condensed letterform, the whole in a narrow white border. One can only conjecture that this apparently very narrow junction of passageways requires the indication that Eremue Lane comes up from the left and dog-legs round towards the house with a white door.
Eremue
Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the earliest on the Isle of Wight. The first account of the settlement is in Æthelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of AD991, when it was called Eremue, meaning 'muddy estuary'.
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