The shopfront of a defunct business featuring a sign with its name (…but is it art…) in pink lettering on an aquamarine background. The plate glass window and door have been papered over on the inside. In front of the former shop is a black lamppost with a yellow sign that reads "Pedestrian Zone" and "At any time." The building is a Victorian redbrick, and the paving is a mix of redbrick and concrete paving slabs. Queen Victoria Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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But is it art? / Pedestrian zone

#WindowsOnWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaput #Retail #Shopfronts #Signage #ReadingUK #Photography

'Seeds & Manure'
Classic Irish shopfront, with shop door and private entrance. Kilrush, County Clare. #Ireland #shopfronts

A photo collage of 7 watercolor paintings from the #100Storefronts art challenge

✨ No. 10-16 of the #100Storefronts painted in 2025! #watercolor #painting #shopfronts #storefronts #watercolorrbuildings #leafbear

A warmly lit launderette interior seen through a glass storefront in Totnes, Devon, with washing machines and community notices visible.

Everything you need in Totnes, Devon.

#photography #blueskyphotography #photographersofbluesky
#streetphotography #urbanstories
#totnes #devon #southwestengland
#eveninglight #lowlightphotography
#shopfronts #CanonPhotography
#eastcoastkin #scape

A street scene centred on a beautiful building with four gables, arched ground-floor windows, and a leaded spire. A former Post Office sorting office from 1901 by F.W. Gardiner, "conceding nothing to the Georgian tradition." In 1938, the Jacobean-style building was converted to the bookshop and bookbindery of Charles Edwin George Bayntun (1873–1940). The business is now owned and run by Edward Bayntun-Coward, Geo. Bayntun's great-grandson. Manvers Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Geo. Bayntun: among the least-altered shopfronts in Bath.

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A narrow pedestrian side street, lined with shopfronts. The laneway continues downhill, and a cyclist in a navy business suit and black helmet passes by. Colourful bunting and string lights zigzag across the thoroughfare and the pavement is a hodgepodge of red and grey paving slabs, red bricks, and pavement lights—glass lenses set into precast concrete to allow natural light into the space below. Outdoor tables and chairs are stacked to the side, soon to be deployed for a bakery's clientele. A woman in the window looks towards the camera. In the distance, the trees of Beechen Cliff are turning from green to red. New Bond Street Place (yes, that's the name), Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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#Cityscape #Scape #BathUK #Shopfronts #Windows #StreetPhotography #Photography

Looking down a corridor of an old-fashioned retail arcade. There are wooden shopfronts on both sides, with plate glass windows on the left and bow-fronted, multi-panelled glazing on the right. The pavement is terrazzo with inlayed black borders and the ceiling has a large skylight with blue and yellow accents. Harris Arcade is a 1930s Art Deco gem, now home to independent and specialist shops, from a milliner to a comic specialist, vinyl record shop to a tobacconist. Harris Arcade, Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.

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Shopping mall, 1930s style.

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Hooded sign painter on a ladder working on a fascia sign on a busy road. The lettering is in a loose rounded cursive style, painted in black with the shadow being applied in pink.

New at bl.ag online, 'Renegade Writing: London’s Faux Fascias', where we meet This Is My Costume and learn about their decade-long initiative refashioning abandoned shops.

https://bl.ag/renegade-writing-londons-faux-fascias/

#SignPainting #Signwriting […]

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