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@aarbrk You could once have taken them down to the Music Roll Exchange in Clapham, London:

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2007/08/gramophones-records-rip/

Gramophones Records (RIP) | Ghostsigns

Gramophones Records (RIP)| Ghostsigns | I am informed by sarflondondunc that this ghost sign has been erased. It was just by Clapham North Station and I used it in my recent presentation as an example of a plain text sign which has been designed to fit around the available wall space. It was visible from both the nearby train line

Sam at BLAG 4d ago

Can anyone make out the long word/phrase in the second layer of this palimpsest?

Layer 1 (rust lettering): "Whitebread, Earl Russell Inn"

Layer 2 (black lettering): "The Earl Russell, West _______ try"

The location is 143 Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BT (corner of Earl Russell Way) and the sign was revealed from beneath a billboard between 2019–20: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oKGDHEaDayoEB6ELA.

Photo: Carla Wakfer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wakfer-60a95a31/).

#Ghostsigns #Palimpsest #Bristol #Whitebread #EarlRussell #Pubs #Inns #AskFedi

Sam at BLAG 4d ago

Was showing someone the Tripadvisor reviews I used to gather for my Ghostsigns walks (https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tours) and noticed there's a new one.

Sorry Annette, I think it's someone else's walk you went on!

More (genuine) reviews at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d5001466-Reviews-Ghostsigns_Walking_Tours-London_England.html#REVIEWS

#Ghostsigns #London #TripAdvisor #Reviews #Tours

Chrysalis 5d ago

#dundee #scotland Ghost shop signs in Dundee city centre. I love that you can get your coatings and trouserings in the fancy department, this way. #GhostSigns

luvan 5d ago

#poets from all kinds of #goth and #weird horizons! Come and help me decipher the #eerie messages left by a #cryptic entity.
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Bête Noire is an experimental #rpg and interactive poem based on #asemic writings and Inspired by the #dark and #lovely narrative games developed by @comemartin @Mila and @Thomas_Munier
#asemicPoem #ghostSigns
https://www.luvan.org/betenoire/

bête noîre

Tywèle Mar 7

I‘m convinced that my cat defended me from a demon or ghost or some other inter dimensional being tonight. When I got to bed shortly after 1 am I turned off the lights and he jumped onto my bed and after a while I felt his body shifting or he let himself fall over and suddenly hissed at something in the dark and was immediately quiet after and lied down beside me. Thanks Rune.

#CatsOfMastodon #occultism #ghostsigns #demons #BlackCat

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Sam at BLAG Mar 5

@sarae Did you stay late enough to see the 'Light Capsules'?

https://bl.ag/alighting-in-astoria-a-permanent-light-capsules-legacy/

#Ghostsigns

Alighting in Astoria: A Permanent Light Capsules Legacy

A wall of ghost signs brought back to life with a permanent Light Capsules installation.

BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting Craft, Community & Culture

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This Is My Glasgow Mar 3

Now, the only reminders of these once uniquitous names in Glasgow grocery shopping are ghost signs like these, which mark where their stores once stood. While the Galbraith's ghost signs are quite common (often carved in stone above what are still convenience stores to this day), the one on Minard Road is the only Cochrane's ghost sign I've come across so far, potentially making it a unique survivor from Glasgow's past.

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #ghostsigns #minardroad #oldshops

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This Is My Glasgow Mar 3

Andrew Cochrane began his career in the tea trade in Glasgow in the late 1800s, and by 1914, he had built up a chain of nearly 100 grocery stores around the city. Along with R. And J. Templeton's and Galbraith's (whose logo is shown on the right), they helped provide the city with all the provisions they might need.

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #ghostsigns #minardroad #oldshops

This Is My Glasgow Mar 3

Yesterday, I posted the interesting mosaic logo on the left which I'd spotted at the entrance to a cafe on Minard Road on Glasgow and asked of anyone knew what it was. Sure enough, someone did, or more accurately several people did (so thanks to them). It's an Art Deco style logo for Cochrane's Grocers, at one time one of Glasgow's main grocery chains.

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #ghostsigns #minardroad #oldshops