Painted signs and mosaics

The former Smithfield Garage in Digbeth, an industrial district immediately to the east of Birmingham centre, has a date of 1923 above one o...

Bordesley station, on the former Great Western Railway (GWR) Oxford to Birmingham line, opened in 1855. Located near Birmingham's cattle...

In the mid-noughties, painted adverts reproducing the label found on the bottles of Jack Daniel's started appearing outisde several pubs...

Yesterday's ghost sign for the Continental Cafe was not the only one painted on this building in the Diritend district of Birmingham. H...

A very simple sign painted for the Continental Cafe, which closed down several years ago. The name was still visible in 2009 on the fascia ...

Robinsons' furniture depository in Birmingham was built in the early 1920s. At the time this huge warehouse was one of the most modern o...

A building on Moseley Road, on the outskirts of Birmingham, has not one but two ghost signs, one on each side. The first one is the unique 7...

The elaborate ghost sign promoting F. Price's ladies and gents hairdressing saloon was painted over one, maybe even two, older signs. Th...

As this blog reaches its 600 th post, I needed something special to mark the occasion. This why I take you once more to Birmingham for a ra...

Isherwood Sutcliffe, born in 1807, certainly established his varnish making business in 1849, the year he moved to 27 Great Hampton Street. ...

Built between 1840 and 1850 as houses, 2 and 3 Great Hampton Street had their upper floors adapted as workshops shortly afterwards. At No. 3...

From the main part of the former White Horse Cellars (see yesterday's post ), a wing extends along Northwood Street. On its side wall i...

The former White Horse Cellars, on Constitution Hill, is the only public house designed by J. A. Chatwin c. 1885-1890. The pub closed down...

The building where Aerlec (Aluminium) Ltd was based for a very short period was previously home to two businesses if not three as suggested...

Bond Street is home to many fashionable and expensive shops. But that's Bond Street, London. In Birmingham, Bond Street runs through a l...