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6th Nov 2016, 5:25 pm | #1 |
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Sign on shop,
Amazingly this is still visible, i remember this about 50 years ago when i was a kid, the shop was then a Bradford TV dealers whose name i forget,
Steve |
6th Nov 2016, 5:41 pm | #2 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
Will probably still outlast all the new vinyl signs of today! Nice to see it's survived
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6th Nov 2016, 7:55 pm | #3 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
Probably because the paint is lead-based: I can't see the modern stuff lasting as long.
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6th Nov 2016, 8:31 pm | #4 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
Here is a good one, merrily a house and no tickets for sale. I like the fact that the owner has kept it and made it a feature.
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6th Nov 2016, 8:38 pm | #5 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
I also spotted the sign in the first post a few months ago on my way back home through the outskirts of Bradford. I wondered why it had not been painted over.
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6th Nov 2016, 10:16 pm | #6 | |
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Re: Sign on shop,
Quote:
Thinks... A full repaint by students, bright and colourful as originally intended. |
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6th Nov 2016, 10:40 pm | #7 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
And then, if advertising really worked, the nearest Curry's would be inundated by people wanting to buy sets which no longer existed
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6th Nov 2016, 10:41 pm | #8 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
I'm sure I used to go past that on the bus every morning when I worked in Clayton (Oak Mills, sadly long gone), some time around 1978...
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7th Nov 2016, 3:14 pm | #9 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
We have got an old sign right up our street.
It was a grocers shop though so it may not be worth my while taking my camera to the end of the street without an ask. |
7th Nov 2016, 11:04 pm | #10 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
Take the picture Ref!
I am asking It's part of our heritage after all Cheers Mike T
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8th Nov 2016, 9:15 pm | #11 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
I believe there are now a few 'collectors' of signs like this.
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8th Nov 2016, 9:20 pm | #12 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
I love seeing these. When I lived at home the village pub took down the wooden sign off the gable end and the original sign was painted underneath on the brick.
If you want to google this sort of thing they call them 'ghost' signs; lots of websites for them! The OP's ghost sign is featured in a BBC news article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30734045
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14th Nov 2016, 3:30 am | #13 |
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Re: Sign on shop,
I have got the photos of the shops that were owned by our now retired butcher.
He took over the grocers many years ago and eventually turned it into rented housing. The butchers shop lasted until a couple of years ago when he retired and converted the second shop into housing and retired on the rental income. He told me he kept the signs because he did not have the heart to pull them down. |