Painted signs and mosaics

The walls of this small petrol station near Teku Bridge, south of Kathmandu city centre, advertise two types of lubricants produced by Hind...

Together with building materials, lubricants are some of the most frequent painted signs seen along Nepalese roads. This one, for Volvo Lubr...

Two signs await the visitor in a narrow street behind Xizhou Market Square. The first one, partly written with plastic letters stuck to the...

A ghost sign revealed when the office block at the corner of Curtain Road and Hewett Street was demolished. Petrol & Diesel ...

I doubt this shop by the name of The Recorder of Edmonton broke any record as there is no trace of it on the web, neither by name nor addres...

Carrier company Carter Paterson was founded in 1860 by Walter Carter, John Paterson James Paterson, and Robert Paterson. It adopted the name...

Below Brixton's famous Bovril ghost sign is a fragment of a sign for Butlin's holiday camps. It is far less special than the one in...

Like the warehouse next door , this building was built in 1857 for Victor Husdon, who rented it to various companies. The name of some of th...

Rue de la Commune in Montreal, which runs parallel to the Saint Lawrence, is lined with former warehouses built in the 19th century, many of...

The building that stretches along the western side of Powis Mews in Notting Hill was once Leverett & Frye's warehouse and ghost sign...

This is undoubtedly one of the most colourful signs I've ever come across. Shame the upper part is hidden by a modern sign! Actually ...

On a recent visit to William Morris's Red House in Bexleyheath, I noticed the two ghost signs for Spiders Snooker and the shop that onc...

In 1966 three French public companies involved in the exploration, production and distribution phases of the petrol business, the Régie Auto...

Pleine-Selve is a small town of barely more than 200 inhabitants but being along a former Route Nationale , it has its ghost signs too. Two ...

As an introduction to a series of ghost signs found along the former Nationale 137 (reclassified as Départementale in 2006) in the départm...

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...

During a recent holiday in Myanmar (hence the near absence of posting over the past few weeks) I came across hundreds of painted signs, most...

A simple painted sign for a local garage in the small town of Matha in the northeastern corner of the Charente-Maritime département . Even t...