#ghostsigns — Public Fediverse posts
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‘Petroglyph Enhancement’ with Ken Jones (RIP) discussing one of the Photoshop techniques he used to dissect ghost signs and identify content and layers that are invisible to the naked eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcmURnKlX2w
PS. Here are some posts featuring Ken Jones and his work on the Ghostsigns site: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tag/ken-jones/
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There have been recent projects by Historic England and Museum of London Archaeology #MOLA to record historic #ghostsigns Here is an example of a more contemporary one. Presumably John Lewis are no longer "at home"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eyy1lzmj1o https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/features/ghost-signs/ #HistoricEngland #histodons #history
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Northampton's Ghosts of Industry project. Capturing fading painted street signs. https://ghosts.mola.org.uk/s/ghosts/page/home #GhostSigns #Northampton #MOLA #histodons
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@les_briques The Walker Brothers one is where it all started for me, so it has a lot to answer for! That's celebrating its centenary around now, and these are the two brothers themselves (Frank on the left, and Herbert on the right), now included among the contextual images on the digital version of the walking tour: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours.
Photos courtesy of Jo and Steve Walker, who are very much related!
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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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The Horn & Hardart chain of ‘automat’ diners ceased to exist 35 years ago, yet this remnant of their advertising past clings on in Manhattan.
untapped new york has the full story: https://www.untappedcities.com/spot-a-ghost-sign-for-nycs-lost-automat/.
Photo: Robyn Roth-Moise.
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A London Inheritance viaits Stoke Newington, and some of its ghost signs.
https://alondoninheritance.com/london-streets/a-stoke-newington-church-street-ghost-sign/
I've added a comment to give a bit more context to the main sign so scroll to the end to see that.
Thank you @RoyReed for the tip-off.
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@overholt That's brilliant.
Something similar happens to sign painters that don't prepare, eg this one in London where they realised that Stoke Newington wouldn't fit in all uppercase letters and adjusted themselves accordingly.
The sign features in the book by @ghostsigns and @RoyReed, see https://ghostsigns.co.uk/book.
#ghostsigns #London #PostOffice #StokeNewington #N16 #SignPainting