Now you see me, now you don’t: London’s elusive shop signs
Nice article here about the brief reveal, and more extended cover up, of some of London’s beautiful hand painted shop signs. In some ways they … Read more
Sign Preservation
Preserving, protecting and restoring ghost signs.
Can new Brickads Generate Income for Denver’s LoDo District? Discuss.
This popped up on twitter, considering the leasing of wall space as a means of generating income, community exposure and maintaining artistic heritage in LoDo, … Read more
RIP: Pressman’s Army & Navy Store
The Hoxsie blog reports the loss of this great sign from Troy, New York. This photo from carljohnson in particular adds a lot of character … Read more
Belgravia Ghost Sign Restored
Before (2006/7) After News in this week is that a restoration effort has been undertaken in the heart of London’s Belgravia. It has been directed … Read more
Love Local Landmarks and the Hackney Society
To protect or not to protect? As I’ve discussed before, my interest in Ghostsigns started in my home borough of Hackney in London. The concentration … Read more
Fresh lick of paint
I received an email this morning from a mural artist with an interest in working to restore/repaint Ghostsigns in the UK. She found me via … Read more
Street Art
sarflondondunc, ever alert to the gradual shifts in our Ghostsigns landscape, alerted me to this new piece of street art positioned on the great gold … Read more
Jericho, Oxford Update
It seems that the threat to a couple of iconic signs in Oxford has passed, for the time being (see the story in the Oxford … Read more
Ancient Ghostsigns
Vote Titus (Pompeii) Are these the oldest ghostsigns in the world? Will at Naked came back from a trip to Italy where he visited the … Read more
Standard Fireworks (RIP)
Photo by robo2004 Destruction and demolition are no strangers to ghostsigns, as the expanding list of ‘obituaries’ documents. Recently news has reached me of one loss … Read more
H H stark (RIP)
Having only very recently featured in the montage for Travel & Transport I learn from sarflondondunc that this sign is no more. The building has … Read more
Landmarks Commission Update
Looks like the hearing was a success…depending on your stance regarding protection…
Bovril Update
Alex sent me this photo of the remnants of a Bovril sign in the Redhill area. In much the same way as the Ekco sign … Read more
Restoration Debate in USA
The National Trust of Historic Preservation over in the USA features an article on their site discussing the debate over the preservation of Ghost Signs. … Read more
Landmarks Commission Hearing
Debate over this site for a new painted wall advertisement Frank Jump over in NYC, USA recently presented the case, on behalf of Colossal Media, … Read more
Hackney Council
In preparing an article for the Hackney Gazette a response came from the council as to what they’re doing to preserve old ads. In principal … Read more
Rise and Fall of Billboards
In response to my post on SmartWrap, Faris warned me to ‘beware the backlash’ and sent me a link to his blog which shows the … Read more
Lambeth Council
Following the recent painting over of the Clapham North ‘Music Rolls‘ sign, Ocky got in touch with Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall to ask her … Read more
Ken Livingstone
Jose recently helped to pose a question, via Murad Qureshi, on Ghost Signs to London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone. His question and Ken’s response are below. … Read more
Protecting Ghost Signs
It seems from people I’ve spoken to that it is very difficult to protect signs from distruction or being covered up. However some notable exceptions … Read more
Bile Beans
Speaking yesterday with a guy writing his dissertation on the preservation of Ghost Signs I heard about this iconic example from York for Bile Beans. … Read more