Latest posts tagged with #GhostSign on Bluesky
Intriguing #ghostsign in central Manchester -Macbeth Brothers, Habit Maker and Boys Clothier. Habits for nuns? Or are there other types of habit I can't think of? 🤔
If only the ad to join the team was for the original company...
A figure stands small against the weathered brick facade of a three-story commercial building, its ghost sign faintly reading “…S AND TRACTOR” and “…Y McDONALD” — remnants of a long-gone farm equipment dealer. The crisp winter light and deep blue sky amplify the contrast between the building’s worn history and the quiet stillness of the street below.
The Building Remembers (Sioux Falls, Mar 2025)
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Saturday March 14, 2026
The theme is #Horizontal
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Handpainted letters on abandoned train car, photo by Marie Kazalia available for download via Adobe Stock
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Available from Adobe Stock
Partly dismantled shopfront reveals faded sign reading Chemist, K Scatchard, Opticians
A new ghost sign revealed in Strathbungo yesterday, as the old Marchtown shop front at 741 Pollokshaws Road is replaced. It is for K Scatchard, Chemists & Opticians.
#strathbungo #glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory
A Bull Durham Tobacco sign painted on the side of a building years ago still lingers there many years later. Partially faded by the sun but still brilliantly colored in some areas.
#Ghostsign in Walkerville, #Montana outside of Butte. #travel #photography #travelphotography #history
Corner building with ‘LEICESTER CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY Ltd’ ghost sign, a former shop or funeral directors.
Not many surviving Ghost Signs around Highfields in Leicester, this one on Chandos Street survives though…
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southeast corner of Queen St East and Kenilworth Ave, a ghost sign for The Home Bank of Canada (picture taken 2017-07-01)
a Home Bank of Canada ghost sign in Toronto
still there on Google street view, too -- www.google.ca/maps/place/1...
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Sunday
coffee in the old days
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Corner residence, ground floor level rendered and painted white but a square patch left bare where an old painted advert for Phipps Bottled Stout exists.
Flakey painted advert for Phipps Bottled Stout on red brick, framed by white painted render.
Lost in the terraced backstreets of olde Northampton Town, a Ghost Sign for Phipps Bottled Stout on what was probably a former Off License, treated with the respect it deserves.
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This is a great ghost sign on Blythswood Street in Glasgow. It's a throwback to a time when people needed tailor-made gowns, everyone wore hats and fur was acceptable. It's part of an advert for G.S. Nichols at 186 Bath Street.
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Virtually illegible, faded cream/white colored ghost sign on the side wall of a brick building. Someone appears to have more recently written or traced the letters “PA PA” in black on the ghost sign’s top left quadrant. Apart from that, no distinct words are visible
A narrow vertical sliver of a chipped & faded, yet noticeably colorful, ghost sign is visible on the side of a brick building; an adjacent building obscures the rest of the ghost sign & wall.
The pale, largely-faded letters of an old ghost sign advertising some sort of “paper manufacturers” and their “paper boxes” can be made out running horizontally along the top portion of a brick building’s side wall. Visible a bit below is a portion of the lake street L steel superstructure, with a W Lake St street sign.
Pale faded letters from a ghost sign are interrupted by their brick building’s evidently more recent addition of windows. The visible portion of the still-legible top line reads “& TARRANT MAN’F’G. CO.”. above the building, a crescent moon is strikingly visible.
some random ghost signs I’ve spotted in #chicago
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This photo is now available as a print from my online shop, along with a few other Glasgow ghost signs, at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate...
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I love this ghost sign advertising Regalia Old Highland 22nd Whisky on the outer wall of the former Western Bar on Peel Street in Partick, Glasgow.
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This ghost sign is available as a mounted print from my online store at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate...
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Twomax was started in a disused pub in the Bridgeton by Hugh McClure and Donald McIntosh (the two Macs from which its name was derived), before moving to this location on Old Rutherglen Road.
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Love this ghost sign, which was uncovered and restored as the old Twomax knitwear factory in the Gorbals area of Glasgow was being converted into residential flats.
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An old enamel sign printed in blue on white with some red initial letters, saying: Established 1835 F.W. Collins Elastic Glue Manufacturer (Sole Inventor 1857) Leather, Grindery & General Ironmongery Warehouse
A three storey terraced building with a shop on the ground floor and an old enamel sign at the first floor level saying: Established 1835 F.W. Collins Elastic Glue Manufacturer (Sole Inventor 1857) Leather, Grindery & General Ironmongery Warehouse
Technically, not a #ghostsign but a nice example nonetheless.
Established 1835
F.W. Collins
Elastic Glue Manufacturer
(Sole Inventor 1857)
Leather, Grindery & General Ironmongery Warehouse
Original enamel sign in Earlham Street, Covent Garden, restored in 2022.
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A faded mural of a German village/castle on the side of the Black Forest Inn in Minneapolis.
Still there, barely. (Google Street View June, 2022) #ghostsign
There's a certain irony that they threaten to prosecute people who write in walls, as part of a sign written on that very same wall!
#glasgow #glasgowhistory #tenement #ghostsign #woodlands
Love this ghost sign painted on a wall beside the entrance to a tenement on West Princes Street in the Woodlands area of Glasgow.
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Painted letters cling to brick like a promise made when travel was slower and rooms were earned by the mile. Hotel Slade still announces itself—once in fading paint, once in metal—while its windows look past the present, holding the quiet dignity of a place that outlived its purpose. A parked truck, a bare tree, a winter street: time moves on, but the name stays, insisting that what was here still matters.
The Hotel That Kept Its Name (Adrian, MN; MAR 2025) Built in 1891 and originally owned by the Slade family.
📷 Nikon Zf B&W mode
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Horn & Hardart Automat: 'Its Secret Weapon Was Its Coffee' - 'Ghost Signs 2: Clues to Uptown New York's Past' Book Excerpt #ghostsigns #hornandhardart #automat #ghostsign www.edgarstreetbooks.com/post/horn-ha...
An old Rely-A-Bell burglar alarm box on a wall in the Hidden Lane in Glasgow.
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I love this little copper plaque on a side door to the former Govan Town Hall on the southside of Glasgow. I love the idea that the janitor had his own house built into this municipal building.
#glasgow #govan #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #architecture
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City Road, Old Street #Ghostsign
This is one that I've been trying to photograph for ages, but could never locate. Baffled as to how I've not been able to see it
The Salvation Army
