Paper Bags, Spitalfields

Spitalfields
Originally uploaded by Planethalder.

via the London photopoll on flickr

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question for any regular readers: would it be better to just supply a text link to 3rd party photos such as this one (see previous posts), or to show the small version as I've done here?

I sort of feel like only ones spotted by contributors here should be posted in full, as our own work, and the others should be plain links, but what works for others?

Law's Hygenic Bakers / Memory Makers

Memory Makers
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Street Address: South Street, Exmouth
• Comments: two for one! Law's Hygenic Bakers and Memory Makers. The building itself is derelict, with boarded up or broken windows.

F. R. Holt

F. R. Holt
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Street Address: Exeter Road, Exmouth, UK
• Comments: outside the library

Perry?

Perry?
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Street Address: Bicton Street, Exmouth, UK
• Comments: not sure what this is for at all. I was back at the parents' for the break and got these during the post-dinner walk.

Auto Outo?

Auto Outo?
Originally uploaded by Special

one via the urban decay group on flickr.

Allen's Chargrilled Hamburgers

Allen's Chargrilled Hamburgers
Originally uploaded by jekemp.

a photo via the urban decay group on flickr

Luncheon & Confectionery, Penzance

Luncheon & Confectionery, Penzance
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Street Address: Alverton Street, Penzance, Cornwall


• Comments: I didn't spot this side-hoarding for several days, as I was walking along the street from west to east. Came at it the other way and saw this, where an estate agent now works.

Station Cafe, St Ives

Station Cafe, St Ives
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Street Address: St Ives bus station


• Comments: part of a 1960s bus station complex now almost all derelict. taken Dec 2004.

Warehouses

Warehouses
Originally uploaded by mathowie.

another US worn sign via flickr.

Dining Rooms

New and Old Signs in London
Originally uploaded by TeddyBare.

another great sign via flickr, this time showing an old painted one and a new brash board.

Wm Brock & Co

Wm Brock & Co
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Address: Fore Street, Exeter


• Comment: now above a BHS and a B-wise

Exeter Post Office

Exeter Post Office, Bedford Street
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Address: Bedford Street, Exeter


• Comment: The existing Post Office is due for demolition as part of the Princesshay re-development, and with it this neon sign which has not been lit for many years.

W.H. & H Le May

W.H. & H? May
Originally uploaded by Mags.

• Address: Borough High Street, South London


• Comment: Hop Factors building, now an employment agency. Spotted 6 Nov 2004
  
  Some more information and closer photographs are here.

Twine Factory on Flickr

This is a lovely b&w photo of an old factory's sign in California, via the flickr urban decay pool:

Twine Factory.

See also:
building art which is two painted ghosts above one another.
words flickr group.

shortens every road

russell davies: lost (but good) straplines of yesteryear : a lovely photo of an old tin sign (though probably not in situ).

Tinley's

• Street Address: Cathedral Green, Exeter, UK
  
• Comment: Tinley's was a fine tea and cake room, still running in the 1980s. You can see archaeological sketches of the history of this corner here.
  
  Now one in a nationwide chain of pizza restaurants. And not even the best pizza restaurant on the Cathedral Green.
  

J. H. Bibbings, Pharmacist

• Street Address: Queen Street, Newton Abbot, Devon, UK
  
• Comment: now a classy coffee shop for country ladies. spotted 22 Sept 2004
  

W.H. Smith & Son

• Street Address: High Street, Exeter, UK
  
• Comment: more stubs of old signs revealed by renovation work, this time for a business still going strong (founded 1792) but which is no longer in these premises and has long since removed all that punctuation (and the "& son").
  

for knitting wools

• Street Address: Cowick Street, Exeter, Devon
  
• Comment: half-hidden by the 1960s post-war additions to the streets. spotted 1996, photographed september 2004.
  

Exeter Pram & Toy Shop

• Street Address: Sidwell Street, Exeter
  
• Comment: once two storeys of toys now a cheap interiors shop next to a Poundland. The lettering was taken down when the shop closed but the iron stork remains.
  Photographed August 2004
  

Redline Petrol

• Redline Petrol, Cowley Road, Exeter.
  
• Exposed by the removal of a billboard, this old petrol advert is right next to a modern petrol station.
  

Exeter Literary Society, 1890

• Street Address: Barnfield Road, Exeter
  
• Comment: stone advert on a building now converted to the Barnfield Theatre
  

Brooke Bond in Bruton

• Brooke Bond Dividend Tea, High Street, Bruton, Somerset.
  
• Sign outside a disused shop, in a town time seems to have forgotten. But it looks as though someone is polishing the sign and keeping it clean. First spotted July 2004
  

Karpol - buy it here! (flickr test)

karpol
Originally uploaded by Advertising Ghosts.

• Street Address: Gabriel's Wharf


• Comments: Karpol - buy it here!

A glass and a half

• Street Address: Gabriel's Wharf, South Bank, London
  
• Comment: spotted 12th July 2004. Again, I suspect this isn't a genuine in situ...
  

Going Sarf of the River

• Street Address: Mutual Insurance, street junction near Clapham Common
  
• Comment: spotted 11th July 2004, from a moving vehicle.
  

24 Hour Paraffin

• 24 Hour Paraffin Service, Thurlow Road, Exeter, Devon.
  
• Paraffin shop is now a beauty parlour. First spotted June 2004, despite living around the corner for four years.
  

• Old Ironmongers, High Street, Castle Cary, Somerset.
  
• An empty shop with a beautifully kept tiled sign for the old ironmongers. First spotted July 2004.
  

A. Davey, Builder est. 1851

• Street Address: top of Portobello Rd, London
  
• Comment: june 2004. now over an antiques shop. spotted by Misty69 and Mags whilst shopping.
  

Hatcher & Sons Depository

• Hatcher & Sons Depository, Kingston Road, Taunton, Somerset.
  
• What looks like a Victorian warehouse, now a block of flats just outside the town centre.First spotted January 2004.
  

St David's Dairy

• Street Address: St David's Hill, Exeter
  
• Comment: two overlapping signs for one! Not only that but I noticed that the electrical substation close to it is labelled St Davids Dairy as well. I have never seen a dairy in this area.

The Stores

• Street Address: Buddle Lane, Exeter, UK
  
• Comment: The Stores, now on the end of a bakers.
  

Cecil Road bakers

• Street Address: Cecil Road, Exeter, UK
  
• Comment: almost gone
  

Route 79: Wembley 1567

external link: Route 79: Wembley 1567

Natural Fur

• Street Address: Bedford Square, Exeter, UK
  
• Comment: this is one of the shops revealed when Land Securities began renovating St Stephen's House. Only the stubs of the lettering remains of a fur shop that must have stood there in the 1950s or 1960s.

neon Dingles

• Street Address: Catherine Street, Exeter
• Comment: Dingles is a House of Fraser department store with many different entrances. This sign points to an old entrance now solely used for goods and is never lit anymore.

the starting point

This blog is intended to become a photoblog archive of ghostly adverts. These are the (usually) hand-painted advertisements which were put on walls and which now advertise a long-since closed business or service. Usually, they have not been repainted in years and have weathered until they are just traces of what was there.

As well as any photos we take ourselves, there'll also be links to other examples found on other blogs. In the sidebar are links to other sites with similar interests.

The photo used in the logo is of the Mitchell Jewellers' clock on Bedford Square in Exeter. This clock is on a building currently being rennovated and which, once the modern shop fronts were removed, revealed itself to have contained other businesses as well.