Ghost Ads
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Here are some ghost ads outside my house in Ramsgate.
PICKFORD'S REMOVALS AND STORAGE
ANTIQUE AND MODERN FURNITURE BOUGHT FOR CASH
PICKFORD'S REMOVALS AND STORAGE
ANTIQUE AND MODERN FURNITURE BOUGHT FOR CASH
ablackwood
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After seeing this post I remembered a great piece of 'Ghost Ad' just a few streets away from my house. Sod's law - a construction site had now appears around the building obscuring the ad slightly. Still an interesting example.
In case you can't make it out it says Undertakers.
In case you can't make it out it says Undertakers.
Its so sad, these things must be getting covered over or demolished on a very regular basis
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Here's another one from Bath,all on the same building now a chemists
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2 this and number 3 seem to have been restored
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Gurgeons is an old word for coarse meal
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2 this and number 3 seem to have been restored
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Gurgeons is an old word for coarse meal
krela
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Found this fantastic double whammy when I was in Bedford this evening
Just done a little research into the Greys Tobacco one to try and date it and found this...........
"There's evidence that the sign was covered over by a larger wooden billboard for many decades. This must have protected the old paint underneath. Around the edges is a faint intermittent white line where the frame of the billboard was repainted white. I guess it was only removed a few years back."
Couldn't get a definite date, but Grey's were using the "Honest to goodness" slogan in a 1944 advert
Just done a little research into the Greys Tobacco one to try and date it and found this...........
"There's evidence that the sign was covered over by a larger wooden billboard for many decades. This must have protected the old paint underneath. Around the edges is a faint intermittent white line where the frame of the billboard was repainted white. I guess it was only removed a few years back."
Couldn't get a definite date, but Grey's were using the "Honest to goodness" slogan in a 1944 advert
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skeleton key
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Like that alot mate Use to pass these on my way to work SK
Use to pass these on my way to work SK
Guys.
I am so impressed by this Ghost Ad malarkey that I've started a Facebook group called, yup you guessed it!! "Ghost Ads"
Love to see some of the photos on the previous pages there. If you join from DP then let me know who you are if your FB id is different from your DP name
The link....................... http://www.facebook.com/groups/169104323181617/
I am so impressed by this Ghost Ad malarkey that I've started a Facebook group called, yup you guessed it!! "Ghost Ads"
Love to see some of the photos on the previous pages there. If you join from DP then let me know who you are if your FB id is different from your DP name
The link....................... http://www.facebook.com/groups/169104323181617/
PROSNIPER
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Manchester House ( godalming high street ) surrey
Saw this in godalming high street today not sure of the history im hoping someone will tell me more ..
krela
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That's not a ghost sign that's masonry work.
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Spotted a few more in Bath
The Limes guest house and boarding now a private house
now an off licence
and finally one for Nelly, more ghost masonry work although this is advertising beer as well as the pub.The pub is sadly closed and now a private residence
The Limes guest house and boarding now a private house
now an off licence
and finally one for Nelly, more ghost masonry work although this is advertising beer as well as the pub.The pub is sadly closed and now a private residence
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