This building was originally a bakery, as advertised high up on the gable.
Law's
Premier
Hygienic
Bakery
To find out more about hygienic bakeries, please check these earlier posts about Hygienic Bakeries Ltd and Hovis.
The ghost sign on the lower part of this wall is much more recent. Indeed Memory Makers, the photo studio of Julian Francis Bates, is mentioned on several occasions in professional magazines and in Country Life between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s.
Memory
Makers
This is such a great name, and such a nicely designed sign! The curlicues remind me of ribbons. Did they wrap photo prints with ribbons? Maybe not.
More information about H. Law can be found on the façade of the building.
H. Law
Baker
Tea Dealer
&
Corn Factor
Another ghost sign appears on the wooden part between the ground and first floors.
Appointed
Oil Fired Heating
Installer
This is surrounded by the logos of Shell and of an unidentified company. Did this mean a heating engineer once occupied these premises? If so that would have been after the bakery closed down and before the early 1980s when Memory Makers moved in. Or was this simply some kind of certificate indicating the heating system inside had been installed by a qualified professional and not some kind of rogue trader? Given the small size of this ghost sign, I believe the second option to be right.
Location: South Street, Exmouth, Devon / All pictures taken in April 2012
1 comment:
Hi Sebastien. I took some photos of this bakery back in 2009 and wrote an article on my website. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any info about it at the time, until yesterday when I came across your blog article. I've now included some of your information on the article and credited it to you, with a link to this page. Here's the link to my page...
http://www.freewebs.com/foxydevonlady/exmouthbakery.htm
I also added a link to your blog on my Links page, as it's such an amazing blog and deserves to be shared. And here's a link to my website...
www.pastremains.co.uk
Cheers, Eileen. :)
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