Last week's post on ghost signs in Loughborough proved to be a bit popular, but I can't help but think that people might have been looking for ghost stories from the area! Anyway, I've been out and about a bit this week and captured some more ghost signs for you to see.
Ghost signs are painted signs, usually advertising signs, on the side of buildings, that are not maintained, or not representative of the business that now takes place in the building. As such, some of the pictures below are not actually classed as ghost signs, but are either carved into the buildings or are reliefs, that represent the building's previous - or in the case of the Town Hall and the library the current - use. The Putts sign is, of course, not a ghost sign, because it is maintained and the business operated from the premises is still Putts the Decorators, as is the sign on the side of the Three Nuns pub, and that on the Royal Oak. The first two ghost signs below are not from Loughborough, but are very good examples of the art of ghost signs that I have seen very recently.
Someone suggested that there might be some remnants of a sign for the pub in George Yard, but I could find no evidence of this.
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| Ghost sign on a building in Swadlincote |
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| Ghost sign on a restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| Putts on Nottingham Road |
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| The Three Nuns on the right of the picture |
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| The Royal Oak on Leicester Road |
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| Corner of George Street and Storer Road |
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| Stag and Pheasant Nottingham Road from the other side! |
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| Former shop on Wharncliffe Road |
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| Houses on the end of Gregory Street with ghost sign top right |
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| Close up of the Gregory Street painted street sign |
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| Not really ghost signs, but evidence of Cottons!! |
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| More evidence of Cottons! |
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| Above the first floor window is the ghost of the Leicester Mercury! |
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| The Black Lion, lately the Hobgoblin |
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| The Old Pack Horse, now the Organ Grinder |
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| The Blacksmith's Arms |
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| The former offices of the Loughborough Echo on Swan Street |
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| The Town Hall, formerly the Corn Exchange |
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| Great Central Station Hotel, now flats and a day nursery |
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| Messrs Garton The Mart! Originally the Temperance Hall |
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| Close up of Messrs Garton The Mart! |
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| William Corah's on Aumbry Gap etched in the green stone, left of the hardboard! |
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| The L and the I of William Corah's on Aumbry Gap |
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| The Carnegie Library |
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