Fading painted signs

East End

Spitalfields Life has published a series of pieces documenting East End shop fronts, in support of the campaign against the forthcoming rise in business rates across the area. I have picked one photo from each piece and would encourage a proper browse of all of […]

East End Shops from Spitalfields Life

This entry was posted in Sign Collections and tagged Alan Dein Archival Photos Bread Brick Lane CH N. Katz East End Fading Fascias Fascias John Claridge London Shop Fronts Shop Signs Spitalfields Spitalfields Life T.S. Cowell Tony Hall Turog UK on March 4, 2017 by Sam Roberts

Philip Marriage got in touch with the photograph above, taken in the Spitalfields area in 1985. It is part of a wider collection of archive photos that he has, many published on the Spitalfields Life blog here. Philip has been trying to pinpoint the locations […]

Paper & Bags: Spitalfields Mystery

This entry was posted in Sign Stories and tagged 1985 Bags East End London Mystery Paper Philip Marriage Spitalfields Spitalfields Life on October 6, 2016 by Sam Roberts

Remains of painted Victorian lettering — While creating this beautiful new signage for Casa Blue, Ash Bishop of The Brilliant Sign Co. alerted me to an astonishing discovery inside the premises of this newly converted bar. It is a fragment of some Victorian painted lettering, which Ash proposes dates from the […]

History Repeating: A Stunning Reveal on Bethnal Green Road

This entry was posted in Sign Making Sign Stories Signs of Note and tagged Ash Bishop Bethnal Green Road Brick Lane Brilliant Sign Co. Casa Blue East End Fragment Indoors Interior Internal Lettering London Reveal UK Victorian on January 29, 2014 by Sam Roberts

Hessel Street London from Shopfronts Revisited by Lady Lamo — Via this review of the East End shopfronts exhibition happening now in Tower Hamlets, I came across this incredible site which is the work of Lady Lamo and her colleague Alabama. It retraces the steps that Alan Dein took in 1988 and documents what has […]

Then and now: shopfronts 1988 revisited

This entry was posted in Sign Initiatives and tagged East End Event Ghostsigns Lady Lamo London Shop Signs Tower Hamlets on June 3, 2012 by Sam Roberts

After You've Gone East End shopfront photo from Alan Dein — I’m gutted I won’t be able to visit this exhibition (pdf flyer below) of Alan Dein‘s late 1980s images of shop fronts in Tower Hamlets. If anyone writes a review then let me know and I’ll link to it here. (Hat tip to Lorna at […]

Photographic exhibition of East End shop fronts opens today

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Sign Collections Sign Initiatives and tagged Alan Dein East End HWO London Shop Signs Tower Hamlets on May 17, 2012 by Sam Roberts