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Ghostsigns on Facebook

I’ve created a page on Facebook for the project which contains videos, photos, links and more. If you use Facebook then you can become a … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations, Signs in Media
Hands Dairy Specialists in Cream Bath

Bath Ghostsigns

A short visit to Bath and Bristol over the weekend allowed me to visit a handful of west country signs. These maybe aren’t the best … Read more

Categories Sign Collections, Sign Destinations
Mapping of Ghostsigns locations July 2009

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 … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations, Sign Initiatives
Mapping of Ghostsigns locations June 2009

Mapping Ghostsigns

Here’s a neat little thing, all the postcodes in the archive so far plotted onto a map.  This gives a really good sense of just … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations
Peterkin Custard on Google Street View

Google Street View

I’ve been geotagging lots of my pictures on Flickr for the UK Ghost Signs archive project. In order to get postcodes for some of the … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations

French Connection

I’ve just recently returned from five weeks in the south of France, hence the lack of Ghost Sign news since late June.  It looks like … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations

Leicester Ghost Signs

Browsing some of the vast and ever growing collection of photos in the Flickr Ghost Signs pool I came across a nice collection taken by … Read more

Categories Sign Collections, Sign Destinations, Sign Stories
Google Earth Ghost Signs Experiment

Google Earth Experiment

Last winter I took some of my photos from Flickr and attempted to begin building a map of signs and locations. You can see my … Read more

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