#ghostsigns — Public Fediverse posts
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@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
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@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
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@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
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@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
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@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
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It's World Bee Day apparently, so here's a beehive on a ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/03/brothers-butterworth-beehive-in-newcastle-under-lyme/
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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It's World Bee Day apparently, so here's a beehive on a ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/03/brothers-butterworth-beehive-in-newcastle-under-lyme/
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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It's World Bee Day apparently, so here's a beehive on a ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/03/brothers-butterworth-beehive-in-newcastle-under-lyme/
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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It's World Bee Day apparently, so here's a beehive on a ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/03/brothers-butterworth-beehive-in-newcastle-under-lyme/
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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It's World Bee Day apparently, so here's a beehive on a ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/03/brothers-butterworth-beehive-in-newcastle-under-lyme/
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
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New at bl.ag online, 'Field Notes from BLAG: May 2026', with the New York vernacular, brush care, DIY directionals, Barcelona painters, and more from the field.
https://bl.ag/fieldnotes/field-notes-from-blag-may-2026/
#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Ghostsigns #FieldNotes
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@UllaMR/116560140206207882
See also wine merchants and brothels: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2010/01/ancient-ghostsigns/.
And a few more ancient ghost signs: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2015/02/signs-frescoes-in-pompeii-herculaneum/
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@modinmetro And, just inside, this wonderfully preserved pair of ghost signs.
I've put the notes and transcriptions from our book, Ghost Signs: A London Story (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), in the alt text.
cc @RoyReed
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@modinmetro And, just inside, this wonderfully preserved pair of ghost signs.
I've put the notes and transcriptions from our book, Ghost Signs: A London Story (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), in the alt text.
cc @RoyReed
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@modinmetro And, just inside, this wonderfully preserved pair of ghost signs.
I've put the notes and transcriptions from our book, Ghost Signs: A London Story (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), in the alt text.
cc @RoyReed
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@modinmetro And, just inside, this wonderfully preserved pair of ghost signs.
I've put the notes and transcriptions from our book, Ghost Signs: A London Story (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), in the alt text.
cc @RoyReed
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@modinmetro And, just inside, this wonderfully preserved pair of ghost signs.
I've put the notes and transcriptions from our book, Ghost Signs: A London Story (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book), in the alt text.
cc @RoyReed
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Meant to share this on Friday, but better late than never for this 1 May reference in my first ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2013/11/my-first-ghostsign-from-nicaragua/
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Meant to share this on Friday, but better late than never for this 1 May reference in my first ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2013/11/my-first-ghostsign-from-nicaragua/
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Meant to share this on Friday, but better late than never for this 1 May reference in my first ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2013/11/my-first-ghostsign-from-nicaragua/
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Meant to share this on Friday, but better late than never for this 1 May reference in my first ghost sign:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2013/11/my-first-ghostsign-from-nicaragua/
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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#Ghostsigns of an enormous auto and truck garage from #AlbanyNY – shots I took back in 2010 but current StreetView shows it's pretty much the same today. #sign #signs #signage #ghostsign #UpstateNewYork #upstateNY
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Somehow my Ghostsigns email address has been linked to the fictitious business, Bovril Sign Brixton.
Which makes for some bizarre spam...
That said, if Andrew can reduce my fuel expenditure on Bovril Sign Brixton, then I could be in the money as the current spend is a grand total of £0 per annum...
For those interested, the sign in question is this one, which I wrote a little bit about here: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2018/06/bovrils-windrush-square-legacy/.
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A tantalising glimpse of a well-preserved ghost sign in St Peter Port, Guernsey:
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I've had an enquiry about this fading fascia that has been retained in situ at 74 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1*.
It's a palimpsest for R. Sullivan (Wardrobe Dealer) and what someone once told me were metal workers A. Liechti
Various street directories between 1882–1939 have a tobacconists here, including those prior to 1900 when the house number looks like it was 56. However, the Liechti sign also seems to have the number 58 or 68 on it...
The presence of 74 on the Sullivan layer means that that sign at least is post-1939, unless that business was a short-lived occupancy between two tobacconists.
Can anyone shed any further light on it all?
*Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kfGNWDu3wV74sQJC8
#Ghostsigns #Southwark #London #SE1 #Shopfronts #Signs #FadingFascias #AskFedi
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I've had an enquiry about this fading fascia that has been retained in situ at 74 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1*.
It's a palimpsest for R. Sullivan (Wardrobe Dealer) and what someone once told me were metal workers A. Liechti
Various street directories between 1882–1939 have a tobacconists here, including those prior to 1900 when the house number looks like it was 56. However, the Liechti sign also seems to have the number 58 or 68 on it...
The presence of 74 on the Sullivan layer means that that sign at least is post-1939, unless that business was a short-lived occupancy between two tobacconists.
Can anyone shed any further light on it all?
*Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kfGNWDu3wV74sQJC8
#Ghostsigns #Southwark #London #SE1 #Shopfronts #Signs #FadingFascias #AskFedi
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I've had an enquiry about this fading fascia that has been retained in situ at 74 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1*.
It's a palimpsest for R. Sullivan (Wardrobe Dealer) and what someone once told me were metal workers A. Liechti
Various street directories between 1882–1939 have a tobacconists here, including those prior to 1900 when the house number looks like it was 56. However, the Liechti sign also seems to have the number 58 or 68 on it...
The presence of 74 on the Sullivan layer means that that sign at least is post-1939, unless that business was a short-lived occupancy between two tobacconists.
Can anyone shed any further light on it all?
*Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kfGNWDu3wV74sQJC8
#Ghostsigns #Southwark #London #SE1 #Shopfronts #Signs #FadingFascias #AskFedi
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I've had an enquiry about this fading fascia that has been retained in situ at 74 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1*.
It's a palimpsest for R. Sullivan (Wardrobe Dealer) and what someone once told me were metal workers A. Liechti
Various street directories between 1882–1939 have a tobacconists here, including those prior to 1900 when the house number looks like it was 56. However, the Liechti sign also seems to have the number 58 or 68 on it...
The presence of 74 on the Sullivan layer means that that sign at least is post-1939, unless that business was a short-lived occupancy between two tobacconists.
Can anyone shed any further light on it all?
*Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kfGNWDu3wV74sQJC8
#Ghostsigns #Southwark #London #SE1 #Shopfronts #Signs #FadingFascias #AskFedi
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I've had an enquiry about this fading fascia that has been retained in situ at 74 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1*.
It's a palimpsest for R. Sullivan (Wardrobe Dealer) and what someone once told me were metal workers A. Liechti
Various street directories between 1882–1939 have a tobacconists here, including those prior to 1900 when the house number looks like it was 56. However, the Liechti sign also seems to have the number 58 or 68 on it...
The presence of 74 on the Sullivan layer means that that sign at least is post-1939, unless that business was a short-lived occupancy between two tobacconists.
Can anyone shed any further light on it all?
*Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kfGNWDu3wV74sQJC8
#Ghostsigns #Southwark #London #SE1 #Shopfronts #Signs #FadingFascias #AskFedi
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In 1926, Peterkin Custard's "Real Eggs" claim came before a court of law, and found to be less than truthful.
There's more about this, and the wider Peterkin story, here:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/01/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-peterkin-custard-ghost-sign/As a result of sharing that article, the final pieces of the Peterkin puzzle fell into place ahead of being shared in Ghost Signs: A London Story. I've pasted the relevant section into the alt text of the second photo.
#Ghostsigns #Peterkin #Wandsworth #London #Custard #Easter #Eggs #EggHunt
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In 1926, Peterkin Custard's "Real Eggs" claim came before a court of law, and found to be less than truthful.
There's more about this, and the wider Peterkin story, here:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/01/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-peterkin-custard-ghost-sign/As a result of sharing that article, the final pieces of the Peterkin puzzle fell into place ahead of being shared in Ghost Signs: A London Story. I've pasted the relevant section into the alt text of the second photo.
#Ghostsigns #Peterkin #Wandsworth #London #Custard #Easter #Eggs #EggHunt
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In 1926, Peterkin Custard's "Real Eggs" claim came before a court of law, and found to be less than truthful.
There's more about this, and the wider Peterkin story, here:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/01/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-peterkin-custard-ghost-sign/As a result of sharing that article, the final pieces of the Peterkin puzzle fell into place ahead of being shared in Ghost Signs: A London Story. I've pasted the relevant section into the alt text of the second photo.
#Ghostsigns #Peterkin #Wandsworth #London #Custard #Easter #Eggs #EggHunt
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In 1926, Peterkin Custard's "Real Eggs" claim came before a court of law, and found to be less than truthful.
There's more about this, and the wider Peterkin story, here:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/01/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-peterkin-custard-ghost-sign/As a result of sharing that article, the final pieces of the Peterkin puzzle fell into place ahead of being shared in Ghost Signs: A London Story. I've pasted the relevant section into the alt text of the second photo.
#Ghostsigns #Peterkin #Wandsworth #London #Custard #Easter #Eggs #EggHunt
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In 1926, Peterkin Custard's "Real Eggs" claim came before a court of law, and found to be less than truthful.
There's more about this, and the wider Peterkin story, here:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/01/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-peterkin-custard-ghost-sign/As a result of sharing that article, the final pieces of the Peterkin puzzle fell into place ahead of being shared in Ghost Signs: A London Story. I've pasted the relevant section into the alt text of the second photo.
#Ghostsigns #Peterkin #Wandsworth #London #Custard #Easter #Eggs #EggHunt
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My first Photo with Hashtag #ghostSigns
Meister Jeder, Dadaist and Photographer 4/26
#dada #Photography #Fürth
Aus der Serie: Schöne Ecken in Fürth -
RE: https://swiss.social/@didib/116283788640549662
The first picture here is a wonderfully explicit illustration of a more recent layer of paint drying out, cracking, and falling off to reveal the ghost sign beneath. That layer is, in turn, also cracking and falling off the wall.
Fabulous #ghostsigns
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Carl Paffendorf (@pharmerfoto.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/pharmerfoto.bsky.social/post/3mhnlyuvs422d
> #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput #GhostSigns #Stunday Super Premium #PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueskyPhotography #Art #Photography #Broviravo #ECK
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@aarbrk You could once have taken them down to the Music Roll Exchange in Clapham, London:
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?
Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"
Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"
The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.
Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).
#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi
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Was showing someone the Tripadvisor reviews I used to gather for my Ghostsigns walks (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours) and noticed there's a new one.
Sorry Annette, I think it's someone else's walk you went on!
More (genuine) reviews at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d5001466-Reviews-Ghostsigns_Walking_Tours-London_England.html#REVIEWS
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Was showing someone the Tripadvisor reviews I used to gather for my Ghostsigns walks (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours) and noticed there's a new one.
Sorry Annette, I think it's someone else's walk you went on!
More (genuine) reviews at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d5001466-Reviews-Ghostsigns_Walking_Tours-London_England.html#REVIEWS
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Was showing someone the Tripadvisor reviews I used to gather for my Ghostsigns walks (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours) and noticed there's a new one.
Sorry Annette, I think it's someone else's walk you went on!
More (genuine) reviews at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d5001466-Reviews-Ghostsigns_Walking_Tours-London_England.html#REVIEWS