The Woolhampton Bakery Compendium of Ghost Signs

The Woolhampton Bakery Compendium of Ghost Signs

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twing

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133 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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1800’s Simonds Brewery (Reading) pub in Hermitage. No idea if repro but this thread has got me investigating the history

Legmaster

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209 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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Richard-390a0 said:
A couple from my neck of the woods. The Ekco radio sign at Bitterne Triangle / Cobden Bridge is now hidden by a new build, but the Nestles Milk one in Eastleigh is still just readable.
And another just down the road in Woolston:


ShredderXLE

549 posts

161 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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Not my photo as the street view car is too close to view the whole thing - corner of Maidenhead Street in Hertford. One of my favourite buildings but now a betting shop and a flats above

P5BNij

15,875 posts

108 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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Leicester Central station, closed in May 1969....


DickyC

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50,105 posts

200 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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The Great Central Railway - there's a whole thread right there.

liner33

10,717 posts

204 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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twing said:




1800’s Simonds Brewery (Reading) pub in Hermitage. No idea if repro but this thread has got me investigating the history
I used to live in Hermitage and drive through it regularly but never noticed that sign

twing

5,067 posts

133 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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It’s just before the hill down to the Fox

5pen

1,908 posts

208 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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The tobacco edition…

Biddenden


Lewes


Whitstable


Edited by 5pen on Saturday 15th January 15:52

Vickers_VC10

6,759 posts

207 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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Redhill (view from the train is better) fairly sure it's been touched in since that photo.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,315 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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Whole bunch of them in Nottingham

And the British Waterways has the remnants of something else that I've not been able to decypher


2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,315 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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I've always admired the FHW sign in Hitchin


2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,315 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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I couldn't help myself from saying "don't tell him" every time I walked past this is St Albans city centre biggrin


2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,315 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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....and imagine this smoky old bar back in the day


P5BNij

15,875 posts

108 months

Saturday 15th January 2022
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DickyC said:
The Great Central Railway - there's a whole thread right there.
It'll only end in tears Dicky!

Network Rail uncovered this enamel sign a few years ago, it was installed in the mid '50s by the Western Region of BR (itself covering up the original GWR wooden sign from c.1906) and covered up with the then new 'corporate' black on white signage in the early '70s....


lufbramatt

5,370 posts

136 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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One from Strood in Kent, the small "BB" initials in the stonework reveals this building was once part of the Budden and Briggs Steam Brewery. This was the offices, the main buildings are all gone and the site is now a supermarket.

DickyC

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50,105 posts

200 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Cheap Street, Newbury.

Chepe was an old word for market and is where 'cheap' comes from.

Every day's a etc etc

blue_haddock

3,359 posts

69 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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This one just over the bridge at Bridnorth always impresses, although i susoect its been repainted at some point


garythesign

2,150 posts

90 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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blue_haddock said:
This one just over the bridge at Bridnorth always impresses, although i susoect its been repainted at some point

Was waiting for someone to post this.

Our first van had previously been owned by Ridley Seeds

Great idea for a thread DickyC

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

263 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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The place where the 'F1' logo was on the old Mclaren showroom on Park Lane was visible until a couple of years ago, but I don't think you can make it out now.

timbo999

1,302 posts

257 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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The Shippam's clock on the New Look building in Chichester:



Edit to say I've just realised I've cut off the large chicken wishbone that hangs under the clock - you can just see it in that 'photo.

Edited by timbo999 on Monday 17th January 11:59