DE Signs North East has been serving businesses in Blyth for over 45 years. From our workshop just down the road in Blaydon, we provide bespoke signage, vehicle graphics, and illuminated signs to shops, offices, and industrial units across Blyth and the Northumberland coast. We know the area well — from the independent shops on Market Street to the businesses serving the Port of Blyth.
Blyth is one of Northumberland's busiest towns, with a working port, a growing offshore energy sector, and a town centre full of independent retailers and trades. Whether you're a shop on Market Street, a contractor working out of the Kitty Brewster industrial area, or a tradesman running a van fleet across Ashington and Bedlington, we've got the signage solutions to get you noticed. We're familiar with Northumberland County Council's advertisement consent rules that apply to Blyth businesses and can guide you through any planning requirements.
Every sign we make is designed, manufactured, and installed by our in-house team. No outsourcing, no middlemen, no compromises. We use premium materials from trusted suppliers like 3M, Avery Dennison, and Coates — ensuring your sign looks great and lasts for years, even in the North East weather.
LED light boxes, illuminated letters, and light-up fascia signs for maximum visibility day and night.
Full vehicle wraps and fleet livery to turn your vehicles into mobile advertising.
Modern LED neon signs for bars, restaurants, and retail.
Fascia signs, projecting signs, and complete shop front makeovers.
Dimensional lettering in acrylic, metal, tray, and illuminated finishes.
Frosted vinyl, window lettering, and full-colour printed window graphics.
Van lettering, vinyl graphics, and partial wraps for any vehicle type.
PVC banners, correx boards, Dibond panels (3mm aluminium composite), and pavement signs.
Directional signage, door signs, and site navigation systems for offices and public buildings.
Recent projects from our Blaydon workshop, serving Blyth and the South East Northumberland coast.
We have been making signs for North East businesses since 1978. That is over four decades of local knowledge.
Everything is made at our Blaydon workshop. No outsourcing means better quality control and faster turnaround.
We come to you, measure up, and give honest advice on the best signage solution for your budget.
Being local means we can respond quickly. Most signs are completed within 5-10 working days.
We cover all of Blyth and the surrounding areas, including:
Blyth falls under Northumberland County Council's planning jurisdiction. Illuminated signs, projecting signs, and signs in conservation areas typically require advertisement consent. We can advise on what's likely to be approved before you invest, though we don't submit applications ourselves. Read our guide on planning permission for signs in Newcastle for more details.
Local landmarks and areas we know well include the Port of Blyth, Market Street and the Keel Row shopping area, Blyth Battery, the Blyth & Tyne Railway route, and nearby Cambois and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea.
Genuine reviews from North East businesses we have made signs for - collected via Google, Yell and our own website.
Yes, we cover all of Blyth including the town centre, South Beach, Newsham, Bebside, Cowpen, and the Kitty Brewster industrial area, plus nearby towns like Ashington, Bedlington, Cramlington and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. We're based just down the road in Blaydon, so site surveys and installations are quick and easy.
Absolutely — we've made signs for retailers across the North East and understand what works on a busy pedestrianised high street. Whether you're on Market Street or in the Keel Row area, we can create an eye-catching fascia that pulls customers through the door.
Shop front signs start from around £250 for a simple vinyl sign, £450-£1,200 for a standard fascia panel with cut vinyl or acrylic lettering, and £1,500-£4,000+ for illuminated signs. Every project is quoted individually after a free site survey.
Yes — van wraps and vehicle graphics are one of our specialities. Whether you're a sole trader working the coast road or a contractor running a fleet for the port and offshore sector, we can design and install eye-catching vehicle livery that turns your van into a mobile billboard.
For most non-illuminated signs on commercial premises, no. Illuminated signs, projecting signs over public footways, and signs in conservation areas usually need advertisement consent from Northumberland County Council. We can advise you on what's required and handle the application for you as part of our service.
Blyth's town centre is going through real regeneration, and every new unit opening on the high street is a chance for a proper fascia rather than a temporary vinyl. We make shop fascias and front signs for Blyth retailers, cafés and takeaways, specified for a coastal town: powder-coated frames, UV-stable inks and laminate faces that do not dull in the sea air. Surveys across Blyth — from the Market Place to Croft Road and up to Bebside — are free and without obligation.
Blyth's economy has strong roots in the port and the growing offshore and renewable energy sector around the estuary, and that means vans, fleets and site vehicles everywhere. We wrap them: van wraps and lettering for contractors, marine services and trades firms are regular work for us, with cast-grade vinyl and edge sealing used on vehicles that live outdoors. Multi-van firms get matched fleet graphics in one print run.
Coastal hospitality trades into the evening, so light matters in Blyth. LED-illuminated fascias and projecting signs keep seafront and town-centre units visible through dark winter afternoons, and neon-style LED signs give the town's barbers, bars and takeaways the window presence that stops foot traffic. Sealed, IP-rated lighting is standard on everything we fit near the front.
Sports clubs, schools and community groups around Blyth order the practical print from us: banners, boards and event signage built for sea wind, and weighted pavement signs that do not take off in a gust. Seasonal window vinyl keeps the high street looking current between bigger refits.
Salt air is the quiet enemy of coastal signage. Unprotected steel rusts from fixings outward, cheap vinyl lifts at the edges, and unsealed electrical fittings corrode — which is why some seafront signs look five years older than they are. Everything we fit within reach of Blyth's seafront gets specified differently: marine-grade fixings, aluminium or composite substrates, sealed LED systems with IP-rated drivers, and laminated or UV-cured print faces.
Illuminated signs get particular attention. Modern LED modules run cool and last tens of thousands of hours, but the weak points are always connections and seals, so we build coastal sign cases with gasketed access panels and cable entries kept out of the prevailing weather face. The payoff is a shopfront that still lights evenly in January, when a failing sign means lost trade on the darkest days of the year.
The port and offshore-energy supply chain also brings specific compliance signage needs: site boards, safety and wayfinding signage for yards and quaysides, and vehicle branding that presents a professional face to national clients. We print to BS EN ISO 7010 symbols for safety boards and can produce full site signage sets so every board matches in material and message.
For homes and holiday-facing businesses on the coast between Blyth and Seaton Sluice, engraved-style nameplates, gate signs and entrance boards in durable materials make the difference between an entrance that looks cared for and one that needs re-painting every spring. We make these in-house, so a personalised sign is a quick job rather than a mail-order gamble.
Yes — for anything fitted near the seafront we use marine-grade fixings, aluminium or composite panels, sealed IP-rated LED lighting and laminated print faces as standard. The same sign inland might get lighter materials; on the Blyth coast we build for salt air, wind and UV from the day one.
Yes — we print full safety sets to current BS EN ISO 7010 symbols: mandatory, warning, prohibition and safe-condition boards, plus site notice boards and vehicle graphics for yard fleets. Everything is produced in-house, so multi-board orders arrive as one matched set.
Call us on 0800 2888004 or request a free quote online. We cover all of Blyth and the surrounding areas.
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