DE Signs North East has been manufacturing and installing signs for Northumberland businesses for over 45 years. From shop fronts to vehicle wraps, illuminated signs to 3D built-up letters, every sign is designed, manufactured, and installed by our team at Blaydon — just 20 miles from Northumberland town centre.
From the market towns of Hexham and Alnwick to the coastal villages around Bamburgh and Seahouses, Northumberland combines rugged natural beauty with thriving rural communities that all need signage that can withstand the elements.
We cover Alnwick, Morpeth, Hexham, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ponteland, Prudhoe, Corbridge, Haltwhistle, Wooler, and Rothbury. Whether you need a single fascia sign for a high street shop or a full rebrand across multiple sites, we deliver the same family-run quality that has kept North East businesses coming back since 1978.
Postcodes we cover: NE46, NE47, NE48, NE49, NE61, NE65, NE66, NE67, NE70. Call 0800 2888004 for a free quote.
Fascia signs, projecting signs, and shopfront signage for Northumberland businesses. From 3mm aluminium composite panels to traditional wooden hanging signs, we manufacture signs that suit both high street shops in Morpeth and rural businesses in Wooler. View our shop front sign services →
Van wraps, fleet branding, and vehicle lettering for Northumberland trades and businesses. Whether you are a farmer in Hexham or a contractor in Berwick, we turn your vehicles into mobile billboards that work across the county. Explore vehicle graphics →
LED illuminated signs, light boxes, and halo-lit lettering for Northumberland businesses that want to be visible in the darker rural evenings. Essential for pubs, hotels, and visitor centres. See illuminated sign options →
Custom glass and LED neon signs for bars, restaurants, and hospitality venues across Northumberland. Popular with hotels and pubs in Alnwick and Seahouses. Discover neon signage →
Premium 3D acrylic and metal letters for reception walls, shopfronts, and corporate interiors. A strong choice for visitor centres, country hotels, and business parks. View 3D letter options →
Directional signage, interpretation boards, and heritage signs for Northumberland's walking trails, castles, and visitor attractions. Built to withstand Northumberland weather. See wayfinding signs →
Recent projects made in-house at Blaydon for businesses across the county.
Family-run since 1978. Three generations of sign-making expertise serving the North East.
All signs are designed, manufactured, and finished in our workshop. No outsourcing, no delays.
We come to your premises, measure up, and provide a fixed-price quote with no obligation.
Most projects completed within 2-3 weeks. Rush jobs available. We keep your business visible.
Northumberland National Park Authority has strict signage guidelines for signs within the park boundary. Market towns like Hexham and Alnwick have conservation areas that require sensitive signage design. We have experience producing heritage-appropriate signs that meet these requirements.
Genuine reviews from North East businesses we have made signs for - collected via Google, Yell and our own website.
Yes. We cover all of Northumberland including Alnwick, Morpeth, Hexham, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ponteland, Prudhoe, Corbridge, Haltwhistle, Wooler, and Rothbury. We are based 20 miles away in Blaydon.
A standard fascia sign starts from £420. Illuminated signs start from £540. 3D built-up letters start from £100 per letter. All prices include VAT, design, manufacturing, and installation. Call 0800 2888004 for a free quote.
Yes. We have experience producing heritage-appropriate signage for conservation areas and listed buildings. We can advise on materials and designs that meet Northumberland National Park Authority and local council requirements.
Most projects are completed within 2-3 weeks from sign-off. Rural installations may take slightly longer due to travel distances. We can schedule installations around your business hours.
Yes. We produce directional signage, interpretation boards, and heritage trail markers built to withstand Northumberland weather. Ideal for tourist trails, nature reserves, and visitor attractions.
Northumberland's shopfronts split into two characters: market town parades in places like Morpeth, Alnwick and Berwick, where fascias want a hand-finished, heritage-friendly feel, and the busier retail strips of Ashington, Cramlington and Blyth, where bright, modern fascias with LED lighting win the passing trade. Whatever the setting, every job starts with a free site survey so the fascia we build fits the opening, the building and the street — see our fascia and shop front signs page for styles and materials.
Rural Northumberland runs on vans: farmers, joiners, groundworkers, heating engineers and renewable-energy firms covering huge mileages between jobs. Lettering and partial van wraps put your name and number in front of every farm track and village green in the county, and because we build everything in-house the artwork, printing and fitting all happen without third-party delays. Matching vehicle graphics across a two-van or five-van fleet makes a small firm look like an established one.
Village shops, tea rooms, caravan parks and attractions live or die by visibility at the point a visitor decides to stop. Illuminated signs extend the working day into winter afternoons; wayfinding and direction signs guide visitors from the car park to the entrance; and neon-style LED signs give cafés and bars a look that photographs well — free marketing when every visitor has a phone.
Events are the county's marketing calendar: agricultural shows, markets, opening seasons and holiday parks. We print weatherproof banners and boards sized for gates, fences and exhibition stands, and stock pavement signs that survive in wind-exposed squares. Because Northumberland weather does not negotiate, everything is laminated and fixed to last the season.
As well as the market towns above we regularly survey and install signs in Amble, Seahouses, Wooler, Rothbury, Bellingham, Haltwhistle, Ponteland, Dinnington, Prudhoe, Bedlington and right across Hadrian's Wall country. Distance is not a problem for surveys — we plan routes so several Northumberland jobs share one trip, and larger installs get their own scheduled visit.
Tourism signage in Northumberland has one job: help a driver decide in three seconds. Brown and white signage conventions, clear lettering and a symbol people can read at speed do more for a visitor attraction than any brochure. We design outdoor signs that meet those instincts while keeping within what the highways and planning teams will allow, and we can produce the drawings you need for consent applications on roads or in conservation areas.
Farm shops and diversification businesses need signage systems, not single signs: entrance boards, price totems, wayfinding to the car park, café signs and safety notices for farm traffic. Building the set in one production run keeps the look consistent and the cost per sign down. Materials are chosen for field edges: treated timbers, aluminium composites and laminated prints that do not fade after one summer of open sky.
For remote sites, maintenance matters more than anywhere else. A failed light at a coastal café in October is a lost evening's trade, so we fit IP-rated LEDs, quality drivers and accessible gear trays wherever possible, and we will happily quote a seasonal check-over for businesses whose year depends on a short season. Fading and staining are handled at design stage: dark surround colours hide weathering, and printed laminates protect the ink layer from UV.
Community buildings — village halls, institutes, sports pavilions — are some of our favourite Northumberland jobs. Usually run by volunteers with quotes needed for a committee, they need honest advice on what will last twenty years and what will need replacing in five. We quote both, so the hall gets signage that survives decades of committee meetings.
Yes — we deliver and install right across the county, from the coast to the Tyne Valley, and we combine Northumberland jobs into planned routes to keep travel costs sensible. Very remote sites just need a note about access at survey stage (gate widths, tracks, livestock) so the install crew arrives prepared.
We do, and we will be straight with you about what is likely to need consent. Within Northumberland National Park and the coast AONB, materials and lighting choices are usually the deciding factors; we design with muted palettes, low-light-spill illumination and traditional fixings that planning teams approve, and we prepare the specification documents that support your application.
Call us on 0800 2888004 or fill in our contact form for a free, no-obligation quote. We cover all of Northumberland and the surrounding areas.
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