● John Smith's Magnet Ales (Heslington Road, York, YO10) by Ken Pitcher.
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When rushing around to your next meeting/appointment take a second and look up at the sides of old buildings in your area for you might see a ghostsign. Ghostsigns is a collaborative national effort to photograph, research and archive the remaining examples of hand painted wall advertising in the UK and Ireland.
Direct link to— Archive / Alcohol & Tobacco / Food & Drink / Hotels & Restaurants / Household & Furniture / Media & Entertainment / Medical & Health / Services & Financial / Shoes & Clothing / Tradesman & DIY / Travel & Transport / Animals & Agriculture.
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Amazing, nice spot. Weirdly saw a few yesterday while on the bus and thought about creating a similar project. No need to now!
—POSTED BY: Rich, April 12th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I lived just around the corner from one of the signs. I always though it was beautiful.
—POSTED BY: Dean, April 20th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Thanks for the write-up and the links, I’ve just posted the video from the One Show broadcast earlier this month: http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk/blog/oneshowtheguardian
—POSTED BY: Sam Roberts, April 25th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
The above link has now moved to: http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk/2010/04/one-show-guardian.html
—POSTED BY: Sam Roberts, January 17th, 2012 at 9:04 am