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The gable end of a house with a faded whitewashed wall concealing an old painted advertising sign.

The gable end of a house with a faded whitewashed wall concealing an old painted advertising sign.

The gable end of shop terrace with a faded painted advertising sign in a scalloped rectangular cartouche.

The gable end of shop terrace with a faded painted advertising sign in a scalloped rectangular cartouche.

The gable end brick wall with a faded painted advertising sign in a scalloped rectangular cartouche.

The gable end brick wall with a faded painted advertising sign in a scalloped rectangular cartouche.

I spotted three faded ghost signs in Upper Norwood, near Crystal Palace earlier this week: 26 Church Road, 32 Westow Hill and Westow Street. They're all too faded or covered for anything to still be legible.

#ghostsign

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A black and white photo of a long red two story brick building a modern awning.  There is a 'ghost sign' or very faded sign on the side of the building announcing that it was a hardware store at some point.  I'm pretty sure it's abandoned now.

A black and white photo of a long red two story brick building a modern awning. There is a 'ghost sign' or very faded sign on the side of the building announcing that it was a hardware store at some point. I'm pretty sure it's abandoned now.

"Gordon's Hardware" at one time

📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax 50mm f/1.2
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200 (converted to B&W in post)

#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #WindowsOnWednesday #GhostSign #EastCoastKin #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Urban #UrbanGaze #Urbex #Architecture #Abandoned #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P487

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I don't know when this ghost sign dates from, but based on the font, I'm guessing sometime between the 1920s and the 1960s.

#glasgow #ghostsign #cooperativesociety #springburn #glasgowhistory

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It provided an alternative to the NBRC shops and sold goods at fairer prices. This proved so popular that it grew to become the largest retailer in Springburn and at one time had 26 branches the area.

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#glasgow #ghostsign #cooperativesociety #springburn #glasgowhistory

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This cooperative society was founded in 1881 in response to the exploitative practices of the North British Railway Company, which was not only one of the largest employers in the area, but was also the largest landlord in Springburn.

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#glasgow #ghostsign

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A ghost sign advertising the Cowlairs Cooperative Society on the side of their former shop on Angus Street in the Springburn area of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #ghostsign #cooperativesociety #springburn #glasgowhistory

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A beautifully composed shot. The perspective — shot at a low, raking angle — makes the brickwork recede dramatically, giving the wall a sense of great length and age.

The image has a strong urban archaeology quality — the wall as a document, recording and eroding at the same time.

A beautifully composed shot. The perspective — shot at a low, raking angle — makes the brickwork recede dramatically, giving the wall a sense of great length and age. The image has a strong urban archaeology quality — the wall as a document, recording and eroding at the same time.

Palimpsest, Ghost Sign (Artist’s signature of a ghost sign)

Pentax K3 MkIII Momochrome

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekLforLayers

#ghostsign #ClassicMono #Pentax #photography

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The white triangle IMPROVEMENT OF THE POOR ESTABLISHED 1875 FAMILY WELFARE HOMELESS MEN FRESH AIR CAMP ghost sign

The white triangle IMPROVEMENT OF THE POOR ESTABLISHED 1875 FAMILY WELFARE HOMELESS MEN FRESH AIR CAMP ghost sign

The White Triangle.
#photography #streetphotography
#Pittsburgh #stripdistrict #ghostsign

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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...

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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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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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📷 Nikon Zf
🔘 Nikon 24-70mm f/2.4

#Nikon #NikonZf
#photography #streetart #urbangaze #ghostsign #ghostsigns #ghostsignproject #Urbanphotography #urbex
#humansofbluesky

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Handpainted letters on abandoned train car, photo by Marie Kazalia available for download via Adobe Stock

Handpainted letters on abandoned train car, photo by Marie Kazalia available for download via Adobe Stock

#handpaintedfont #traincar #antique #vintage #abandoned #ghostrown #Nevada #Ryolite #ghostsign #oldwest
Available from Adobe Stock

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Partly dismantled shopfront reveals faded sign reading Chemist, K Scatchard, Opticians

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

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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.

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

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Corner building with ‘LEICESTER CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY Ltd’ ghost sign, a former shop or funeral directors.

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…

#GhostSign

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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)

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...

#ghostsign

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"Views and postcards of Blenheim", a just about readable #GhostSign in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

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Sunday
coffee in the old days
#coffee
#historicleadvertising
#ghostsign
#Kampen
#Netherlands
#photography

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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.

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.

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.

#GhostSign

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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.

#glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory

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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

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.

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.

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.

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

#pics #photo #ghostsign #ghostsigns #old #history #historic #city #urban #midwest #urbex #vintage #retro #architecture #building #buildings #street #streets #iphone #walking #art

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#ghostsign #melbourne

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Market Harborough lunchtime. #GhostSign

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Ghost Signs – This Is My Glasgow

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...

#glasgow #partick #whisky #advertising #ghostsign

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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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#glasgow #partick #whisky #advertising #ghostsign

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This ghost sign is available as a mounted print from my online store at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate...

#glasgow #gorbals #twomax #ghostsign #glasgowhistory

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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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#glasgow #gorbals #twomax #ghostsign #glasgowhistory

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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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#glasgow #gorbals #twomax #ghostsign #glasgowhistory

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Removed The Hudson Bay sign to reveal the OG #Ghostsign

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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

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

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.

#London

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A faded mural of a German village/castle on the side of the Black Forest Inn in Minneapolis.

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

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