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The Ghostsigns project
There’s a new website called The Ghostsigns project. .A collaborative national effort to photograph, research and archive the remaining examples of hand painted wall advertising in the UK and Ireland. http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk/home
If you know of any of these old wonders near you, & you have a camera, then there welcoming Photographers who have pictures of signs, however old, to contribute them to the project by offering them as a gift to the History of Advertising Trust (HAT). http://www.flickr.com/groups/ghostsigns/
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What a great site 😀
and what a even better project 😀
thanks for sharing
Paul
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Thanks for the links Andy,
cool site.I often see ghost signs out and about and almost had a few crashes as
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I love ’em.
Saw a few yesterday downtown, one for a banana company.
I have actually noticed these treasures my whole life long, funny that I’d grow up to be a sign painter.There is a nice book about Ghosts Signs printed by Signs of the Times magazine a few years back:
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Signs-Brick … 0911380841
We got it free at a Letterhead meet years ago.This is another site I like:
http://www.livinggoldpress.com/ghost.htm
(the walldog articel on this site was written by my good friend Bill)
Of course I live in the land of Mail Pouch!
Love….Jill -
New York Sea Port
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Great, thank’s for share.
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Just round the corner from where I work. Bit of local history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Alkali_Company
Merged to become ICI in 1926
http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/ar … ?id=201244
James Foggie – ended in 1920.
http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/ar … ?id=200365
John Bruce & Son – ended in 1919
…sign has lasted quite well!!…except for some idiot that put the secure entry panel in the middle of it.
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I have lots on file which i take when i am out installing signs around the uk.
this is the only one i can see handy on this computer though. 😕its not a great example of creative brush work, but i did like how its embedded amongst brand new buildings all around it. i spotted it at the back of the hotel i was staying in when going out to the car park. i doubt it will be there any more as you can see it was taken in 2005 and it looked like it was being prepared to be pulled down.
it was about 100 yards from Tower Bridge in London.
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Even just looking at some of the Ghost signs posted here as well as on that website. is how creative the brush work is BUT MORE SO many are done on the face of buildings hundreds of feet in the air. not only was the sign writer talented, but was probably risking possible death just doing it in the first place because we are going back 30, 40, possibly 50 years with some. Where was your H&S back then, no such thing as a cherry picker or the like. 😕
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