Fading painted signs

Leicestershire

This large canal-side ghostsign has fallen victim to the demolition of its host building in Leicester. More details of the location can be seen on Amy’s photo of the sign on Flickr where it is also noted that it made a cameo in the first […]

RIP: A.E. Piggott & Sons, Leicester

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged A.E. Piggott & Sons Amy Jane Barnes Canal Gary Lineker Leicester Leicestershire RIP Scrap Merchants Tradesmen Walkers on September 19, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Hand painted sign on a wall advertising Smiths Grand Teas — This photo by John Vince features in a short piece he’s written on ghostsigns for the Countryman. The sign, from Leicestershire, also features in the History of Advertising Trust Ghostsigns Archive and has the wonderful ‘act local’ line of “Carefully blended to suit the water of […]

Ghostsigns and Smiths Grand Teas in the Countryman

This entry was posted in Signs in Media and tagged Countryman John Vince Leicestershire Oakham Press Print Rutland Smiths Grand Teas Tea on September 1, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Bovril Ghostsign in Leicester by Dennis Duggan — Colin Hyde from the Centre for Urban History at Leicester University sent me an email with a fascinating link today. It is to a project he has been curating over the last couple of years which features an unrivalled collection of Ghostsigns from the county of […]

My Leicestershire Digital Archive

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Archive Bovril Colin Hyde Leicester Leicestershire on May 16, 2011 by Sam Roberts

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 Amy Jane Barnes in Leicester. Here are three of my favourites. Thank you to Amy for letting me feature them […]

Leicester Ghost Signs

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Leicester Leicestershire Palimpsest UK on April 4, 2008 by Sam Roberts