Nick Gadd, a Melbourne-based writer, is one who has joined the merry band of ghost sign hunters around the world. He was introduced to them by a friend a couple of years ago and now takes great delight in not only photographing them, but uncovering the stories behind them.
One of his favourites was a sign that appeared in Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago during construction work which advertised the work of a Dr King and was painted around 1890. Through searching library records, Gadd discovered that Dr King was an ambitious young doctor who was also a bit of a quack, advertising his services elsewhere as a ‘medical clairvoyant’.
