London Ghost signs

These wonderful ghosted advertisements are mainly to be found on the sides of shops and buildings along old high streets. Here is just a small selection.

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Shown above are:

Gillette in Commercial Street E1;

Wootons Cash Chemist in Richmond Avenue N1;

tea rooms in Museum Street WC2, Bate's salve ('...cures wounds and sores' which overprints an earlier one for '...Kings citrate the original safe and best') in Regent Square WC1;

The front of a building owned by Miller Beale and Hider Ltd glazing contractor which appears to read 'builders...' over/under another sign I can't quite read in Greenland Road NW1 (I now have better photos of this building and will upload them soon);

Take Courage just west of Borough Market SE1;

Bernard' s mens hosier, hatter (and something else I can't make out) which overprints an earlier sign for P(?) Lewis in Brick Lane E1;

pianos and carpets just off Hornsey Road N7;

Boots in Camden High Street NW1 (you save vouchers by shopping at Boots);

upholsterer's sundries in great Eastern Street EC2;

Key Flats in Caledonian Road N7

Architectural patterns

Patterns, shapes, colours, textures, reflections, geometry, and strange attempts at DIY

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Architectural motifs

The quirky details that make a building interesting. Again, these are all to be found along the A1 in Islington

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London Looking up

Next time you are out shopping in Upper Street or Holloway stop staring at the pavement and look up for a change!

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Arhitectural lettering

These are all along the A1 in Islington

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London The Way We See It

This is a great website for photographers keen to get out and about with their cameras in our wonderful city. Each week a London street or location is nominated and we have 2 weeks to go there, take photos and then load up three of them onto the site. It's really interesting to see what other people notice and how they frame and compose their shots. I am really enjoying it. And it's good to have a hobby with a deadline! 

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London's hidden shop signs

I was lucky to see these two old shops signs when they were uncovered during re-fits. The top four pictures show what is hidden at McDonald's 280 Holloway Road – W. B. Hallett, Fox & White, Auctioneers and Valuers. The bottom two pictures show that there was a shop called Davisons at 606 Holloway Road. I think I can also make out the word 'provisions' to the right.

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Islington Clocks

Some of these Islington clocks even tell the correct time!

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London's old pub signs

All of these old pub signs are along the A1 Holloway Road, Upper Street and Islington High Street. Some are now pubs by another name and others have become shops.

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London's old shop signs

These can all be found along the A1 Holloway Road and Upper Street. Sadly all of these are gone but some beautiful glimpses remain.

If only today's shops could be a bit more creative with their signage and stop using those horrible back-lit bits of coloured perspex.

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