Tracking Down Boots in Stoke-on-Trent
Back in 2016 I gave a short talk about my archiving work at the annual conference of the Business Archives Council, where one of the … Read more
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Gardiner & Lacey at the Cat & Mutton
The Cat & Mutton pub on Broadway Market in East London has a remarkable array of Victorian glasswork on display in the main bar (see … Read more
Inch & Co Chemists Inspires Poetry
Coming back from my visit to South London I also spotted this ghostsign advertising Inch & Co Cash Chemists on Kennington Park Road. As I … Read more
S Errington and some other South London Ghostsigns
This is a detail from one of my all-time favourite ghostsigns. It’s on Dulwich Road in South London and already features in the History of … Read more
Lyndsey Smith and the signs of Bath and Lewes
The Circulating Library sign from Bath is certainly one of the most popular and regularly photographed ghostsigns in the UK [See comments on this post … Read more
Two brilliant ghostsigns from Bath
I was recently interviewed by Kirsten Elliott of Akeman Press for an article in a forthcoming magazine launch scheduled for later this year. We’ve since … Read more
