30 September, 2004

Tinley's


we demand cake! cake, and the finest wines available to humanity
  • 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.

24 September, 2004

J. H. Bibbings, Pharmacist

J.H. bibbings
  • 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

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").

17 September, 2004

for knitting wools

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.

15 September, 2004

Exeter Pram & Toy Shop

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