Love this ghost sign on Clarkston Road in Muirend. The MER refers to the nearby Merrylee Telephone Exchange, which was built in 1928. This means the sign can be dated from between that year and 1966 when All-Figure Dialling was introduced in the UK, and the MER prefix was replaced with the code 637. I've no idea which business this number once belonged to.
I love the font on these Bournville Cocoa signs on Nicolls Gallery on Dumbarton Road in the Thornwood area of Glasgow. I'm presuming they date from around 1900, when the shop started its life as a tobacconist and confectioners.
The old sign for the former Royal Hospital for Such Children on Dalnair Street in the Yorhill area of Glasgow has been re-painted since I last photographed it a couple of years ago. However, while it's good to see it is being preserved, I can't help thinking it would have been better just to clean it up as it's lost some of its previous charm.
Family Department ghost sign on the side of the Brunch Club on Old Dumbarton Road in the west of Glasgow. There has been a pub or restaurant of some kind or other on this site since 1888, and this sign presumably dates from a time when women weren't widely welcome in pubs. Instead, the Family Department was where they could buy alcohol for comsumption at home.
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A ghost sign on the Melbourne Street entrance to the former Glasgow meat and cattle market in the East End of the city. Created in the early 1800s, the market finally closed in the 1980s. As far as I can work out, it says No Entrance Except On Business.
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A ghost sign for the Taurus Manufacturing Company Limited in a pend under the Britannia Panopticon on Trongate in central Glasgow.
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A ghost sign for the Commercial Bank of Scotland on Candleriggs in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. Founded in 1810, the Commercial Bank of Scotland merged with the National Bank of Scotland in 1958 and then the Royal Bank fo Scotland in the 1968.
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An unusual Glasgow ghost sign. The logo of a 1990s restaurant, called Froggies, at 55 West Regent Street in Glasgowin broken terracotta tiles set into the pavement ouside its entrance.
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A faded ghost sign the side of a building on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. I can't quite make out the first, but lower down it says: carpets, curtains, drapes, etc. Durable and inexpensive.
A Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department ghost sign at the entrance to a tenement close on High Street in Glasgow, featuring a phone number with the BELL extension of the nearby Bell Telephone Exchange, which opened in 1936.
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