Latest Locations & Some Missing

Following the previous mapping of the archive postcodes, here's an update representing the c.600 signs catalogued for the archive across the key categories being worked on.

There are also quite a few that are still waiting on location information, specifically street names and postcodes. These are listed below (alphabetical by county). If anyone can help with any of these please let me know via the comments to this post or make a comment on any of the pictures on Flickr. (PS. I'm marking off those that have been found.)
1. Cheshire, Wallasey

2. Cumbria
a) Barrow-in-Furness (FOUND)
b) Barrow-in-Furness (FOUND)

3. Ireland
a) Dublin
b) Cork [Update: Link no longer available]
c) Cork [Update: Link no longer available]

4. Kent
a) Gravesend (FOUND)
b) Sevenoaks (FOUND)
c) Sevenoaks (FOUND)

5. Lancashire, Manchester (FOUND)

6. Leicestershire
a) Husbands Bosworth (FOUND)
b) Leicester (FOUND)
c) Somerby (FOUND)
d) Syston (FOUND)

7. Lincolnshire, Stamford (FOUND)

8. London
a) London
b) London (FOUND)
c) London

9. Midlothian, Edinburgh (FOUND)

10. Northamptonshire, Northampton

11. Shropshire
a) Ellesmere
b) Shrewsbury
c) Unknown

12. Somerset
a) Bath
b) Bath

13. South Yorkshire
a) Sheffield
b) Sheffield
c) Doncaster

14. Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds

15. West Sussex, Littlehampton (FOUND)

16. West Yorkshire
a) Leeds (FOUND)
b) Leeds
c) Bradford
d) Bradford
e) Dewsbury
f) Halifax
g) Halifax
h) Huddersfield

17. Wiltshire, Chippenham (FOUND)

18. Yorkshire
a) Unknown
b) Unknown

19. Unknown
a) Unknown
b) Unknown (FOUND)
c) Unknown (FOUND)
d) Unknown
e) Unknown
f) Unknown (FOUND)

Ariel / Writers update

Photos courtesy of Graham Parker.

Following some of the information provided by Jerry in the comments on this post about the Ariel/Writers sign in Kennington I've been sent a couple of fascinating pictures by Graham Parker. The first of these shows the front of the shop as it once was, although looking pretty closed down by this time. The second shows the sign which already has a similar level of wear to its current form. You can also see just behind the van that there was once also a vertical sign with just the Writers shop name on it.

Roy Writer who owned the motorbike shop was Graham's great uncle (the brother of his grandfather) and these pictures were found at his mum's house. He doesn't have a date for them but they seem to have 01 telephone numbers for London which puts them before 6th May 1990. We also think that the shop closed down in the late 70's which would place these pictures somewhere in the 80's.

Thanks for sending through Graham, always interesting to find these local and personal connections to the signs I'm working on.

PS. This sign is the first image in the recent Travel & Transport montage.

My Merton

...Send & Sons by maggie jones.

Yelfy over at Faded London has just had a nice piece published by local magazine 'My Merton' which includes a picture of the full sign above with the covering billboard removed.

Nice work Yelfy!

Media & Shops

This montage is again a little bit of a mixed bag featuring signs from the Media, Cinema & Entertainment and Shops & Retail categories. See more images in the Flickr group being used to set up the Ghost Signs Archive. Thanks again to everyone contributing their images, keep them coming!

If you have any interesting ghost signs from the UK or Ireland then please get involved by adding them to the collection. The next montage could feature your work...

Other Ghost Signs montages:

• Booze & Fags
• Food & Drink
• Shoes & Clothing
• Travel & Transport
• Household & Furniture
• Services & Financial
• Chemists & Health
• Odds & Sods
• Ghost Signs, One Year On
• Ghost Signs UK

See more Ghost Signs Video with interviews, modern day sign writers at work and more.