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

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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.