Fading painted signs

Bile Beans

Painted sign on a wall advertising Bile Beans — This Bile Beans ghostsign from Lord Mayor’s Walk in York has become something of a ‘poster boy’ for the medium. It was repainted for the second time last November, sparking a mixed reaction from locals, as is often the case with ghostsigns restoration projects. The […]

Bile Beans, York: Correction and update

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Baz Ward Bile Beans Community Lisa Restoration UK York York Stories Yorkshire on June 23, 2013 by Sam Roberts

Bull Dairies painted sign on wall by Nick Stenning — 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 a great project being run by the London Mural Preservation Society. I started drafting a response and then realised I’ve […]

Fresh lick of paint

This entry was posted in Sign Preservation and tagged Alcohol Ale Animals Archive Baker Banks's Beer Bile Beans Black & Son Bread Bulls Dairies Cake Coal Coke Corn Dairy Daren Donovan Bros Fish & Chips Food Forage Grocers Health Illustration Isaac Marsh Lime Medicine Melox Clarke's Melox Marvels Merchant Stores Milk Paper Bags Pies Price Tickets Protection Puddings Pulbis Dog Food Restoration Retail Seed Signwriter Stage Wagon Stationery Strong Carrier Bags The Tulketh Transport Travel William Swan on May 7, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Bile Beans, Hunslet Carr, Leeds (photo by Andy Johnson) Although I’ve been aware of this Bile Beans sign for some time I was struck by Andy Johnson‘s picture seen here as it really highlights the brightness of the sign versus the surrounding area. It has […]

Bile Beans Part 2

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Art Bile Beans Leeds People UK Yorkshire on May 30, 2008 by Sam Roberts

Bile Beans York — 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. According to my contact it was restored by the York Arts Forum in 1986 just at the same time as […]

Bile Beans

This entry was posted in Sign Folk Sign Making Sign Preservation and tagged Bile Beans Research Restoration UK Yorkshire on June 16, 2007 by Sam Roberts