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29 September 2024
The Cinema Museum, Lambeth – always worth another visit
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I wrote about The Cinema Museum after a visit in 2013 and I have been back a few times. Every time I go there I discover something new or ...
25 September 2024
The shops around The Royal Exchange – Searle & Co, cigars and stale pastries
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Wandering around The Royal Exchange in The City of London on a quiet Sunday afternoon I happened to notice what might be the tiniest light w...
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22 February 2023
Players Cigarettes Ghostsign near Shepherd's Bush Green
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Isn't it strange how you can walk or drive up and down a road for decades, even go on many hunts for old signage and the like, yet never...
17 June 2022
A Co-operative ghostsign in Walthamstow
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I little while ago, I heard that a Co-operative ghostsign in Walthamstow had been overpainted. I'd assumed it was this one below, on the...
16 March 2022
Another ghostsign – Benjamin, Shepherd Market, Mayfair
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You probably think all I look for and write about about these days is ghost signs. Well, that's not true – I've got a folder fit to ...
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13 February 2022
Blooms Pianos, Kingsland Road – two signs and at least four workshops
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I was in Shoreditch recently, wandering about admiring things, planning walking routes and generally enjoying the Winter sunshine. I decided...
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30 December 2021
Clapton ghostsigns – hints of upwardly-mobile Victorians and a multi-layered engma
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I've been wandering the streets a lot these past few weeks. Either just following my nose, investigating places I don't know so well...
6 November 2020
A ghostsign in New Southgate – Lander, monumental mason
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Last week I went to New Southgate Cemetery to find the grave of someone I am researching. I got the tube to Arnos Grove, one of Charles Hold...
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23 March 2018
Please help to decipher this old hand-painted sign in Bride Street – could be a butcher or an ad for washing powder?
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From Google Streetview Out doing a recce for a new walk idea earlier this month I happened upon the remnants of a hand-painted sign acr...
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