BBC Inside Out discovers the forgotten ‘ghost signs’ or old advertisement billboards which are found on gable ends across towns and cities in Britain. Designer Wayne Hemingway is a huge fan and thinks they should be treasured and preserved for future generations. Presenter Dianne Oxberry met John Rymer who runs a Facebook site and Twitter […]
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Meet the ghost-sign hunters
Enthusiasts travel miles to photograph faded hand-painted adverts for products and businesses that no longer exist – symbols of defiance against the city’s relentless progress. They’ve just knocked down an unremarkable little building on Latrobe Street, Melbourne, so they can throw up an apartment block – sorry, an “iconic 43-storey residential tower with a jewel […]
Frank H Jump: Not Fade Away
Its rather rewarding when the world doyen on ghost signs, Frank Jump refers to the signs as “Fading Ads” which we have been doing for some time. Fading Ads makes more sense, and better describes what these beautiful old adverts really are today. In the documentary below, Frank from New York describes how he sees […]
Keepers of Ghosts Seminar | Signwriting Project
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 there is a seminar in Footscray about our ‘Keepers of Ghosts’ signwriting exhibition and mural painting project. The seminar will feature Stefan Schutt and professional sign artist and historian Tony Mead, who also played a leading role in the project. The Keepers of Ghosts project began when 10,000 records from […]
Ghost signs of Ballarat
Fabulous article and pictures by Kara Irving in The Courier newspaper of Ballarat about local ghost signs. THE pale green and yellow markings of a hand painted Daytron Electronics sign still peeks above the brick-building tops on the Doveton Street North horizon. After three decades of being exposed to Ballarat’s scorching summers and harsh winters, […]
Kalpowar Bakery
Kalpowar was once an important railway/forestry centre. It comprised of a school, railway and railway infrastructure, forestry office and houses and single man barracks, and a forestry workshop. There were some shops still there along with the hall. All that remains now is a small forestry presence and a few houses. The railway has closed. Photo taken […]
Hobart Ghost Signs
It is wonderful to add new ghost sign photographs to the gallery, specially seeing they are from Hobart courtesy of John Huth. While the history of one sign (Shells) is not knowm, John has provided these links for the Moran and Cato sign (right). There is a fair bit of info around re the history […]
Darrel Lea | Footscray
It is always sad when we discover one of our ghost signs has gone.. We found this on Fading Victoria. Well worth a gander.. Darrel Lea Sign Was quite disappointed to arrive and find that this old painted sign in Footscray was gone – the entire row of ~90 year old shops, which were built […]
Lewis & Skinner Exhibition
Anyone interested in signwriting should visit the Lewis & Skinner Exhibition at Victoria University in Yarraville. Lewis & Skinner exhibition at the VU Library The exhibition by Dr Stefan Schutt, research program leader at the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University, features historical hand-painted signs of Melbourne firm Lewis & Skinner that he rescued […]
Bournville Cocoa | Malvern Ghost Sign
Lewis & Skinner ghost sign | Bournville Cocoa by Cadbury High Street and Seymour Street Malvern Bournville Cocoa | Malvern Ghost Sign Well, its great news and bad news today.. The great news is Pascale sent us a photo of the Lewis & Skinner ghost sign that popped up in Malvern a few weeks ago. The […]
