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Ghost sign for J. C. W. Stacey Builder & Contractor on Loughborough Road, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for J.C.W. Stacey Builder and Contractor with 'Phone Birstall 117' above the name and 'Repair in all Branches. Estimates Submitted /Residence Riverhome Loughbor... Birstall' below. Birstall is possibly where J.C.W. Stacey was based
Ghost sign for Sid Mottram Cycles on the corner of Wolverton Road and Narborough Road, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for Sid Mottram Cycles made up of two parts. On the left, the sign reads 'Sid Mottram / Racing & Touring Cycles', and on the right, the sign reads 'Falcon. Dawes. Holdsworth. Claud Butler. Sun & Raleigh Cycles'.
Founded in 1946 by Sid and Gwen Mottram, Sid Mottram Cycles first opened on Checketts Road before expanding to Narborough Road. The prototype for Mottram frames were made by Holdsworth before being produced by Wally Green until 1955. From 1955 onwards, Mercian Cycles in Derby produced the frames. The shop even sponsored a racing team from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1982, both Sid and Gwen Mottram passed away, leaving their daughters to run the shop. In 1985, the shop was closed
Ghost sign for 'C. H. Hassell' Painter, Paperhanger and Decorator on Oxford Road, 2023.
No full textGhost sign reading 'C.H. Hassell / Painter / Paperhanger / and Decorator / ... / 16 Lytton Road'. This sign is tough to read, but the deterioration in 2017 has made the lower half of the sign more visible. This is potentially one of two signs in the collection for the same firm. The 1908 and 1925 Kelly’s Directory list Charles H. Hassell, painter, at 16 Lytton Road and Thomas E. Hassell at 107 Clarendon Park Road. The 1936 Kelly’s Directory has Charles H. Hassell, painter and decorator, at both 16 Lytton Road and 93 Carisbrooke Road and Thomas Ezra Hassell, painter is listed at 687 Welford Road
Ghost sign for The Haydn Hosiery Co. on Beatrice Road, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for The Haydn Hosiery Co., reading: 'The / Hayden Hosiery Co. / Leicester Ltd. / Underwear / Manufacturers'. This sign has entirely deteriorated and is no longer legible
Ghost sign for Callis & Richards on Belgrave Avenue, 2023.
No full textGhost sign with the names 'Callis & Richards Decorators'. There are two visible layers to this sign: one with their names displayed diagonally and the other horizontally at the top
Ghost sign for 'Picture Post' on the corner of Wilberforce Road and Gaul Street, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for 'Picture Post', a photojournalistic magazine published in the UK from 1938 to 1957. Described as the UK's equivalent of 'Life' magazine, 'Picture Post's' editorial stance was described as liberal, anti-fascist and populist, campaigning against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Conflicts in the leadership of 'Picture Post' and declining sales led to the closure of the magazine. However, 'Picture Post' has now been digitised as the Picture Post Historical Archive
Ghost sign for 'Picture Post' and Lang's News Agents on the corner of Upperton Road and Wilberforce Road, 2023.
No full textGhost signs for 'Picture Post' and Lang's News Agents. Both ghost signs had been painted over sometime before 2006; however, the deterioration on the paint has made the ghost signs visible again. Although the Lang's News Agents sign is difficult to read, the deterioration since 2006 has made the lettering more legible. A second ghost sign for Lang's News Agents is located on the same building facing Wilberforce Road and a third on the rear of the building on the Upperton Road side.
'Picture Post' was a photojournalistic magazine published in the UK from 1938 to 1957. Described as the UK's equivalent of 'Life' magazine, 'Picture Post's' editorial stance was described as liberal, anti-fascist and populist, campaigning against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Conflicts in the leadership of 'Picture Post' and declining sales led to the closure of the magazine. However, 'Picture Post' has now been digitised as the Picture Post Historical Archive
Ghost sign for 'Colour Printers' on Southampton Street, 2023.
No full textGhost sign reading: '...olland & Co. / Colour Printers'. This sign has two smaller signs to the left and right of this lettering, but it is too deteriorated to read
Ghost sign for Redfern Painter and Paperhanger on Chartley Road, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for Redfern Painter and Paperhangers indicating the addresses of two sites: 78 Dunster Street and 5 Chartley Road. According to the 1932, 1941 and 1954 Kelly's Directories, a Thomas Redfern Jr. is listed at 78 Dunster Street as a painter. In both 1932 and 1954, Thomas Redfern, shopkeeper, is listed at 5 Chartley Road, but in 1941, a Mrs. Gladys Redfern, shopkeeper, is listed at 5 Chartley Road
Ghost sign for W. W. Busby & Sons. on Knighton Lane, 2023.
No full textGhost sign for W.W. Busby & Sons, reading '...Busby / Masons & Sculptors / Craftsmen in Marble'. There are two layers to this sign, both for W.W. Busby & Sons. The second layer reads '... Busby / ... / Stone, Marble & Granite'. Between 2019 and 2022, the ghost sign was covered with a poster sign. The Kelly's directories for 1936, 1941 and 1951 shows Walter Busby, a monumental mason, at 186 Knighton Road.
Established in 1926, W.W. Busby & Sons are one of the oldest stonemasons in Leicester and still operate as a specialist firm supplying memorials and materials to the public and trade, headstone cleaners, and granite and quartz kitchen worktop suppliers