ghostsigns

ghostsigns, 4 months ago to Sheffield

A rare sighting of a ghost sign in the process of being revealed from its billboard time capsule. This one courtesy of Mia Warner in Sheffield.

"Natural No.1 Processed Peas" are "Sweet as Sugar", apparently.

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ghostsigns, 4 months ago to london

New blog: 'The Shifting Sands of London’s Ghost Signs Landscape' at https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2024/01/the-shifting-sands-of-londons-ghost-signs-landscape/

Follow the link above for news of ghost signs lost, partially destroyed, and 'brought back' from the dead, as change is the only constant in the capital.

First Lidstone photo, and Vaneers, both courtesy of StockCarPete on Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/stockcarpete/

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Repainted sign on a wall that once advertised the Lidstone Ltd butchers. Below the name it lists numerous former branches of the business across London. The paint is very fresh and is a less-than-precise replica of the original.
Portion of a building's wall and roof, with some barely legible letters in faded paint visible on the wall. Looking carefully it is possible to see that it was once a painted sign advertising Germolene.
Large industrial building with a wide painted sign across the very top. The sign reads "Vaneers, Stamford Trading Co. Ltd., Importers, SHO. 5537" where the last bit is the old-format phone number for the business. Photo copyright StockCarPete on Flickr.
Close-up of a lettered portion of wall flanked by blacked out windows. The glass on the pane to the left is broken, with only fragments of words and numbers remaining from a sign that was painted on it.

ghostsigns, 4 months ago to random

By way of a brief introduction, I'm Sam Roberts, author of Ghost Signs: A London Story (pictured, and at https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), leader of the Ghostsigns Walking Tours (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours), and all-round ghost sign and sign painting obsessive.

I'm planning to use @pixelfed to periodically share photos of ghost signs, which may be my own, or may have been shared by others.

My sister initiative is BLAG (Better Letters Magazine) which you can find at https://bl.ag and on Mastodon at https://typo.social/@blag.

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