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Old 6th Nov 2016, 5:25 pm   #1
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Default Sign on shop,

Amazingly this is still visible, i remember this about 50 years ago when i was a kid, the shop was then a Bradford TV dealers whose name i forget,

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Old 6th Nov 2016, 5:41 pm   #2
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Will probably still outlast all the new vinyl signs of today! Nice to see it's survived
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Old 6th Nov 2016, 7:55 pm   #3
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Probably because the paint is lead-based: I can't see the modern stuff lasting as long.
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Old 6th Nov 2016, 8:31 pm   #4
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Here is a good one, merrily a house and no tickets for sale. I like the fact that the owner has kept it and made it a feature.
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Old 6th Nov 2016, 8:38 pm   #5
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Default Re: Sign on shop,

I also spotted the sign in the first post a few months ago on my way back home through the outskirts of Bradford. I wondered why it had not been painted over.

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Old 6th Nov 2016, 10:16 pm   #6
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I wondered why it had not been painted over.
Paint costs money (end of cynical mode), if it were my wall I wonder if I would just clean and touch it up or do a full repaint maybe hiring a few students from a local art college to do the work.

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A full repaint by students, bright and colourful as originally intended.
 
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And then, if advertising really worked, the nearest Curry's would be inundated by people wanting to buy sets which no longer existed

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Old 6th Nov 2016, 10:41 pm   #8
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I'm sure I used to go past that on the bus every morning when I worked in Clayton (Oak Mills, sadly long gone), some time around 1978...
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Old 7th Nov 2016, 3:14 pm   #9
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We have got an old sign right up our street.
It was a grocers shop though so it may not be worth my while taking my camera to the end of the street without an ask.
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Old 7th Nov 2016, 11:04 pm   #10
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Take the picture Ref!

I am asking

It's part of our heritage after all

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Old 8th Nov 2016, 9:15 pm   #11
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I believe there are now a few 'collectors' of signs like this.
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Old 8th Nov 2016, 9:20 pm   #12
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I love seeing these. When I lived at home the village pub took down the wooden sign off the gable end and the original sign was painted underneath on the brick.
If you want to google this sort of thing they call them 'ghost' signs; lots of websites for them!

The OP's ghost sign is featured in a BBC news article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30734045
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Old 14th Nov 2016, 3:30 am   #13
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I have got the photos of the shops that were owned by our now retired butcher.
He took over the grocers many years ago and eventually turned it into rented housing.
The butchers shop lasted until a couple of years ago when he retired and converted the second shop into housing and retired on the rental income.
He told me he kept the signs because he did not have the heart to pull them down.
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