Good things to eat, Salisbury

Somehow I wonder whether the message on this ghost sign can be trusted? "Things" makes me suspicious.

Good
Things
To Eat
This was painted over another sign, of which only a few letters still appear here and there.

Location: Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire / Picture taken in August 2009

A. Hand & Sons, Salisbury

Several shops in Salisbury have superb tiled fronts but for now let's look at one with a painted signage.


The shop of A. Hand & Sons can be found south of the city centre, shortly after crossing the River Avon. I passed there in the evening, too late to go and ask if it was still being run by the Hand family.


Somehow the quality of the painting is better at both ends than for the shopkeeper's name.


Location: Harnham Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire / Pictures taken on: 15/08/2009

Warehouse, Salisbury

If the two painted signs from this cathedral city I posted previously were well-preserved, the same cannot be said of this one. A multiplicity of layers doesn't help either to decipher it: a few letters can be identified here and there, but only one word is complete.

...
Warehouse
...
&
The building this sign is painted on, at 51 Silver Street, appears on a picture taken c 1955. Unfortunately the picture is too small and by then the sign had already badly faded (it is on the third building from the right, on the side wall between the top of the street light and the chimneys).
Old directories available online don't offer much help either, except maybe Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trades, published in 1880. Indeed under "Boot & Shoe Manufacturers - Wholesale" it lists James and William Moore, of Crispin House, Fisherton Street and 51 Silver Street. It is possible that some of the letters painted at some point just below the moulded stone cornice spellt "Moore". It may also be my imagination.


Location: Silver Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire / Picture taken on: 09/08/2009

F. Searle, and S. Johnson; Salisbury

As the train from London approaches Salisbury, passengers can catch a quick glimpse of not one but two painted signs. Not much to say about both businesses. Many buchers and fishmongers in Salisbury had lovely tiled fronts and quite a few survive around town but R. Searle's is not one of them (if he ever had any that is).


The height of the wall must have been raised since these signs were painted. I am reasonably tall but still had to stand on tiptoe to get the two pictures below. Even so I couldn't get the last line as the picture I took from street level revealed. Of course the flower bed didn't help to get any closer (but whenever railway staff do their best to improve the appearance of a platform, you don't want to go and sabotage their efforts).

R. Searle
Fish, Game
And Poultry Salesman
87 Fisherton St.
S. Johnson
Draper & Milliner
144 Fisherton St.
Next to Subway
This sign was painted twice using the same layout, only the second time it was about one-sixth larger.


The two signs from the street. The wall is only a couple of metres away from the railway bridge.

Location: Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire / Pictures taken on: 15/08/2009 (first three) and 09/08/2009 (last one)