red
Originally uploaded by mintea.
Lambourn Road, Clapham. Click through for more discussion, or click below for close-ups:
top advert in close up
bottom advert in close up
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
a photoblog of the ghosts of adverts, those faded painted signs for products or shops now long gone
Links
Flickr Groups
Labels
- about this blog (1)
- admin (3)
- alaska (1)
- alcohol (4)
- algonquin (1)
- amsterdam (1)
- arts (1)
- babies (1)
- bakers (3)
- barcelona (1)
- belgium (1)
- bournemouth (1)
- brighton (2)
- brussels (1)
- builders (4)
- cafe (4)
- central london (5)
- chemists (1)
- cinema (2)
- clothing (7)
- cornwall (2)
- dairy (1)
- detroit (1)
- devon (19)
- dorset (1)
- down the tubes (1)
- dublin (1)
- e london (5)
- e1 (1)
- e17 (1)
- ec1v (1)
- edinburgh (7)
- external linkage (10)
- food (5)
- footwear (2)
- france (1)
- furniture (1)
- furriers (1)
- general stores (2)
- germany (1)
- haberdashers (2)
- harrogate (3)
- hertfordshire (2)
- holland (1)
- hotel (1)
- household appliances (1)
- household goods (3)
- insurance (2)
- ireland (2)
- ironmongers (4)
- knoxville (1)
- launderette (1)
- Leipzig (1)
- location unknown (1)
- london (26)
- los angeles (1)
- machinery (3)
- medicial (3)
- motoring (6)
- multiple ghosts (8)
- n america (18)
- n london (6)
- n yorkshire (3)
- n1 (1)
- new orleans (1)
- nw3 (2)
- nw5 (2)
- ohio (1)
- ontario (1)
- oregon (1)
- paris (1)
- photography (2)
- post office (1)
- printers (1)
- property (1)
- s london (5)
- school of ... (1)
- scraped off paper (1)
- shot from the hip (1)
- signwriting (1)
- smoking (3)
- somerset (3)
- spain (1)
- stationers (3)
- storage (2)
- sussex (2)
- sw11 (1)
- sw4 (1)
- sweets (3)
- taken by big magpie (6)
- taken by mags (45)
- taken in person (50)
- tea shop (3)
- the real thing (1)
- toys (2)
- transport (3)
- uk (65)
- unknowable product (4)
- unreadable (5)
- utah (1)
- via flickr (43)
- victoria (1)
- w london (3)
Site Stuff
1 comment:
They're a sort of anit-ephemera, really. They suggest a world in which a shop sign was assumed to be permenant rather than temporary. Yet they are now becoming something that once existed rather than something that does exist.
Post a Comment