tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post7004457434777278226..comments2024-03-20T23:43:28.613+00:00Comments on Caroline's Miscellany: Ghost signs (109): the butcher, the baker ...CarolineLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-54827802466183356202019-08-01T09:55:54.203+01:002019-08-01T09:55:54.203+01:00An amazing Hovis & Warner Bros (wedding & ...An amazing Hovis & Warner Bros (wedding & birthday cakes a speciality) sign has recently been revealed which was behind the billboard that was up on the wall opposite the faded chemist ghost sign. It's a real beauty. I suppose it's in the nature of these signs that sometimes them being covered by modern advertising ironically preserves them (although you can see where they painted around the billboard - but not that intrusive into the original sign).Maddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-76180436348577751772014-10-07T17:41:13.259+01:002014-10-07T17:41:13.259+01:00I remember there still being a butcher's on th...I remember there still being a butcher's on the and I'm only 35, and there was a bakers on muirkirk with a Painted on the sign<br /><br />PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-12053733000276006032014-03-25T20:35:52.891+00:002014-03-25T20:35:52.891+00:00You are right Ralph, I posted about the sign earli...You are right Ralph, I posted about the sign earlier in the year, but also found a photo from 10 years ago (which is around when I first noticed it), the deterioration is really clear over that period.<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/93733773@N03/8572258093/runner500http://runner500.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-48692769314833365852014-03-24T23:16:02.263+00:002014-03-24T23:16:02.263+00:00I've been looking at the illegible sign, both ...I've been looking at the illegible sign, both in your photograph and in the <a href="http://goo.gl/C2Zkv8" rel="nofollow">Google Street View picture</a>, varying contrast and colour and using a slight blur to reduce the texture of the brickwork. Words have appeared, but the result is an anticlimax: before the place was a branch of Lloyds Pharmacy it was a chemist's shop.<br /><br />The inscription seems to be a quardruple palimpsest, which is why it's so hard to decipher. I can't make anything of the white writing. But there are three black stages:<br /><br />1. At the top:<br />CHEMIST<br />& DRUGGIST<br />PRESCRIPTIONS<br /><br />2. At the bottom:<br />MEDICAL(?) PRESCRIPTIONS<br />DISPENSED<br /><br />3. At the bottom:<br />Everything at Store Prices<br />Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-90979575375650270602014-03-23T17:07:06.433+00:002014-03-23T17:07:06.433+00:00There are a couple of interesting articles in the ...There are a couple of interesting articles in the local residents' association newsletters on the history of the parade of shops, which you may be interested in.<br /><br />http://www.culverleygreen.org/uploads/2/0/6/2/20626728/newsletter_2013_2_e.pdf<br />http://www.culverleygreen.org/uploads/2/0/6/2/20626728/cgra_newsletter_2014_1.pdf<br />Apologies if this has appeared twice, I was trying a different RSS feed which appeared to fall over...runner500http://runner500.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com