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Ghost sign for 'Allard's Store' on Highfield Street, 2017.
No full textGhost sign for 'Allard's Store', reading 'Groceries, Prov(isions)... / Wines & Spi(rits)... / Finest Quality Lo... Pr...'. The letters in parentheses are presumptive based on context. Unfortunately, part of the sign was covered over, so the full content is obscured
Ghost sign for 'Ansells' and 'Leicester Brewing & Malt' (LBM) on the corner of Leopold Road and Fleetwood Road, 2017.
No full textGhost sign for 'Ansells' and 'Leicester Brewing & Malt' (LBM). There are two layers to this sign. On the first layer, a sign for the Leicester Brewing & Malt (LBM) Eagle Brewery. The LBM sign uses their signature design: the letters LBM written diagonally from left to right. The words 'Eagle Brewery' and 'Gold Medal Ales' are also faintly visible. The most recent layer is a sign advertising Ansells (who bought the LBM) with the tagline 'The better beer'. This particular sign faces Leopold Road, but the same building has a secondary Ansells and LBM sign facing Fleetwood Road as well.
Ansell's Brewery was founded in 1857 by Joseph Ansell, becoming Joseph Ansell and Sons in 1889. By 1934 and after merging with Holt Brewery Co., Ansells became one of the largest UK regional breweries and adopted Holt's signature red squirrel emblem. In 1961, Ansell's merged with Tetley Walker and Ind Coope to form Allied Breweries, and in 1992, Carlsberg UK merged with Allied Breweries to become Carlsberg-Tetley
Ghost sign for Banks's on the corner of Cross Street and Wand Street, 2017.
No full textGhost sign for 'Banks's Ales, Wines and Spirits'. A second variation of the sign is becoming revealed beneath the outermost layer. There is a second Banks's sign on this building, facing Cross Street. To see this sign, view our collection. Kelly's Directory lists 3 separate beer retailers at this location (7 Cross Street): an Ernest Arthur Tarratt in 1922, a Lewis Elmore King in 1932 and a Sidney A. Freeston in 1954.
Founded in 1875, Banks's began brewing in Wolverhampton and continues to do so today
Ghost sign for Fairfield Shoe Repair Service on Fairfield Street, 2017.
No full textGhost sign reading: 'Fairfield Shoe Repair Service'. According to the 1932, 1941 and 1954 Kelly's Directory, 3 Fairfield Street was owned by Joseph Alfred Tildesley, a boot repairer. The 1941 Kelly's Directory also indicates a number of employees of the shoe industry further down Fairfield Street, including Arthur Sarson, a shoe pressman at 29, Leonard William Harris, a shoe hand at 26 and Leonard Darby, a shoe operative at 22
Ghost sign for Leslie J.F. Harrison on Vulcan Road, 2017.
No full textGhost sign for Leslie J.F. Harrison, reading 'Leslie J.F. Harrison / Painter, / Paperhanger / Signwriter etc. / Enquiries at / ...orence'
Ghost sign on the corner of St Michaels Avenue and Harrison Road taken in 2017.
No full textThis ghost sign is on the two corner walls of this building, it is not clear enough to work out what it is advertising
Ghost sign for an unidentfied stout, Ross Walk, 2017
No full textA half-covered ghost sign for an unidentifled stout. The lettering is very similar to a sign that used to be on the corner of Devana Road and Halsbury Street, and may be for 'Holes' stout but this is not certain
Norman Martin and Brenda Goodacre interviewed by Colin Hyde, 1 June 2017
No full textNorman Martin (NM) and Brenda Goodacre (BG) interviewed by Colin Hyde, 1 June 2017. Both talk about effects of Second World War, NM glad to leave military, worked at G Stibbe and Co.; anecdote about not being paid enough upon return. BG states her mother worked on busses during war, then railway until aged 60. Recalls bartering to supplement rations. Comments on 1945 election, Greville Janner. NM talks about unemployment, means tests, further comments on lack of poverty now, comments on social class in the Navy. BG comments on ease of finding work, provides examples. BG reflects on Second World War, recalls watching aeroplanes fly over Leicester, Americans stationed at Braunstone. Brief comments on air raid shelters. BG mentions having no thought for the future at end of war, story about redecorating house with sister, difficult to find places to live. Describes her sister's house, decorated using distemper rather than paint, then wallpaper. Recalls no wireless at home until the war. NM talks about feeling 'discontented' after war and moving to Australia for a couple of years. Conditions there, reason for returning, jobs held there. Returned to Leicester in 1958, lists various jobs, miniscule pay rise at English Electric, then Mellor Bromley. BG comments on social life: having little money to spend, frequented working men's club, attended night classes. Brief memories of Boot & Shoe WMC on Wharf Street. NM comments on social life: lists places ate and drank at. Story of meeting wife at Isle of Man, renting houses, moving into current house. Lists dance halls, talk briefly about going out, cinema, theatre. BG mentions night school classes taking up most evenings, lists classes, took over PT classes and earnt good money. Talks about saving for, and going on a cruise on the Rhine. NM mentions travelling around Europe in 1957. Comment on start of National Health Service, local political elections and campaigns. BG mentions gifts bought for weddings, often items for home e.g. tablecloths, saucepans. Mentions few people drove cars, both comment on attitudes towards end of tram service, brief mention of getting bike wheels stuck in tram lines. NM mentions Salvation Army visiting pubs in Leicester to collect donations.File replaced with redacted file on 23.01.2024 by Colin Hyde
Ghost sign for Parmeko on Vernon Road, 2017.
No full textGhost sign for Parmeko. The sign was covered in 2017 with a modern sign for Jarvis Metal Polishing Ltd., and in 2019 the modern sign was replaced with a new modern sign for Phoenix Autos Garage. A second ghost sign for Parmeko on Percy Road is available to view in our collection.
Formed in 1927, Parmeko began under the name Partridge and Mee before becoming Parmeko in 1935. As a leading manufacturer of electromagnetic devices, including transformers and chokes, Parmeko received a 1944 patent for the design of a loudspeaker. In 1956, Parmeko acquired by Sears Holdings to expand their business, manufacturing electrical engineers, transductors, magnetic amplifiers, electronic control gear, electronic equipment and sound reproducing equipment. The company dissolved in 2021
Ghost sign for 'Tandy Bros.' on Lytton Road, 2017.
No full textGhost sign has severely deteriorated since 2004, but previously read 'Tandy Bros. / Decorators & Painting / Contractors'. According to the 1941 and 1951 Kelly's Directory, Tandy Bros Painting Contractors at 16 Lytton Road (Albert Tandy)