Painted signs and mosaics

A record of painted adverts and doorstep mosaics from Britain, France, Germany and other parts of the world, and the story behind some of them.

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Chocolat Menier, Saint-Dizant-du-Bois

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Since today is Easter Sunday, this ghost sign for some chocolate seems quite appropriate. Founded in 1816 by Antoine Brutus Menier, Menie...
Saturday, 30 March 2013

Atlantic, Belluire

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As it could be seen on the first picture from yesterday's post, there is more to this wall in the tiny village of Belluire than just a g...
Friday, 29 March 2013

Shell, Belluire

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As an introduction to a series of ghost signs found along the former Nationale 137 (reclassified as Départementale in 2006) in the départm...
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Thursday, 28 March 2013

Golden Cuckoo, Bagan

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Bagan, on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is one of the most extraordinary archeological sites in Asia. The area...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Oil colour, Stratford

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With only a handful of words still legible and an online search that did not return any noteworthy result, I have not found which stores and...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Blumen und Sämereien, Bautzen

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Compared to the ghost signs for Kutschke the master roofer and Ullrich the tailor also found in Bautzen, in eastern Saxony, the one for th...
Monday, 25 March 2013

Smithfield Garage, Birmingham

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