The Woolhampton Bakery Compendium of Ghost Signs

Hadn't seen this thread until today - really interesting.

This one is personal as it was built by my great great great grandfather - Newmanleys Road in Eastwood, Nottingham. Unfortunately knocked down and redeveloped in 2021/2 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/nVyr5KVFL7qoDPUp6



The sign on the house is the family name when it was built.


My great great Grandmother lived there until her death in 1909, followed by my great Grandmother until just after WW2 - it then passed out of the family. My mother remembers staying there in the 1930s and 40s. We took her to visit in 2015 and she told us of the large garden - turned into a car park when it became a doctor's surgery in the latter part of the 20th century.

The female side of our family had a tradition of the first born daughter, naming her first born daughter with the middle name of their grandmother's maiden name - which did led to some strange middle names. My sister broke with this tradition in the 1990s - which I think was a shame.

In beautiful downtown Altrincham, I spied an old fashioned shop and thought you myself, ah, ha, I thought, that used to be a Woolworths.





I was wrong.





It used to be a Burtons. I should have known, I was wearing a fifty bob suit at the time.

You're absolutely right. I'd forgotten that. Marvellous.

Dent, Cumbria.