12 Dec 2012
Housefront Coronation Mural Uncovered
Here is John Shaw in Burton scraping the final bit of paint off the front of his house which revealed this home-made mural from 1953 celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A bit more about the discovery in this article from the Burton Mail [Link expired].
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Google Earth Experiment
Last winter I took some of my photos from Flickr and attempted to begin building a map of signs and locations. You can see my preliminary results here if you have Google Earth installed on your machine. You can zoom in and move around and then click on the thumbnail signs for a bigger view […]
28 Jun 2007
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H H stark (RIP)
Having only very recently featured in the montage for Travel & Transport I learn from sarflondondunc that this sign is no more. The building has been knocked down to make way for new flats (see 2007 status below). Another one bites the dust… Photo by sarflondondunc
31 May 2009
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Google Street View
I’ve been geotagging lots of my pictures on Flickr for the UK Ghost Signs archive project. In order to get postcodes for some of the locations I’ve also been putting the street names into Google Maps. If you haven’t come across it already then you must check out Google Street View. They’ve taken what must […]
29 Mar 2009
