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Ghost sign for Ginns & Guttridge Ltd. on Abbey Lane, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for Ginns & Gutteridge, funeral directors. The sign reads 'Gins & Gutteridge Ltd. / Qualified Embalmers / Funeral Undertakers / Head Office St. Nicholas House, Vaughan Way' and they telephone number. Ginns Funeral Directors, according to Dignity Funerals, is found in an 1855 trade directory for Leicester. In the early 20th century, different members of the Ginns family ran competing funeral businesses of the same name until they were amalgamated under the Ginns & Gutteridge name in 1917
Ghost sign for 'Cash' and 'Grocery' on the corner of Roberts Road and Ross Walk, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for 'Cash' and 'Grocery', reading 'Masters / Cash / ... / Grocery / &...' There are two layers to this sign with 'Masters' on a separate layer from 'Cash' and 'Grocery'. This sign has has almost entirely deteriorated since 2003. According to the 1928 trade directory, Misses Nellie and Miriam Clarke, grocers, ran the shop at 84 Roberts Road
Ghost sign for Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd. on Coventry Road in Market Harborough, 2024.
No full textGhost sign reading: 'Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd. / Boots & Shoes'. Founded in 1875 by William Freeman, Arthur Hardy and Frederick Willis, Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd. was a major chain of footwear and leather manufacturers. There was a branch in nearly every town in the UK in the early 20th century, but in 1929, the company was acquired by Sears and then later became a part of the subsidary British Shoe Corporation, based in Leicester. By 1996, the company no longer existed
Ghost signs for Paul Pender & Son on Braunstone Lane, 2024.
No full textGhost signs for Paul Pender & Son. Both signs have the same text, but the second sign is partially blocked by the hedges in front of a low wall. The signs read: 'Paul Pender & Son / Est. 2009 / Funeral Directors'.
Founded in 2009, Paul Pender and his son Jack continue to run this family company today
Ghost signs for The Bull's Head on Main Street in Ratby, 2024.
No full textGhost signs for The Bull's Head. This sign is made up of three parts. The first, located on the side wall of the building, is the logo for the pub, a bull's head and the words ' Food' and 'Ales' on either side. On the front of the building, the second sign reads: 'Local & Craft Ales / Quality Food/ Served Daily / Courtyard Garden'. Lastly, on the side of the the building, is the third sign, reading: 'Local & Craft Ales / Quality Food/ Served Daily / Courtyard Garden'. These signs were painted between 2019 and 2021 whereas the side wall had a ghost sign of the Everards logo before. The Bull's Head is an Everards pub
Ghost signs for 'English Trapped Rabbits' and 'Hills' Fruit Stores on the corner of Moat Road and Orson Street, 2024.
No full textGhost signs for 'English Trapped Rabbits' and 'Hills' Fruit Stores. The sign facing Moat Road reads: 'Guaranteed English Trapped Rabbits'. The sign facing Orson Street reads: 'Hills English & Foreign Fruit Stores'
Ghost sign for RA Marlow, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for RA Marlow. The rest of the sign is too faint to read
Ghost sign for Ansells above an off licence on the corner of Ruby Street and Pool Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for Ansells advertising Double Diamond, a pale ale first brewed by Allsopps, above an off licence. During the 1960s, Double Diamond received a lot of advertising hence the many ghost signs in our collection.
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, Ansells merged with Tetley Walker and Ind Coope to form Allied Breweries, and in 1992, Carlsberg UK merged with Allied Breweries to become Carlsberg-Tetley.
Originally, Double Diamond was brewed by Allsopps in the 19th century until it came under the ownership of Ind Coope Ltd in 1934. In the 1950s, it was the UK's best-selling bottled beer and one of the most successful draught keg bitters of the 1960s and '70s
Ghost sign for Monk's Stores on Northampton Road in Market Harborough, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for Monk's Stores. The sign around the central image reads: 'Monk's Stores / Carpets, Curtains, Beds and Bedding / Furnishings for the Home'. The sign also includes the phone number and 'Estd 1895'. The central image depicts one of the store's delivery vans from the 1930s with a natural scene as the background. The red van says 'H. Monk & Sons' and 'Specialist in Fitted Carpets / Curtains + Loose Covers'.
Founded in 1895, Horatio Monk founded Monk's Stores on Nelson Street, Harborough with a focus on burning oil, hardware and furniture, including delivery of burning oil around the town and surrounding villages. In 1906, the company expanded to Goward Street, and in 1923, the business moved to a new home on Northampton Road where the company still functions. Now called H. Monk & Sons and still run by the Monk family, the company concentrates on carpets, curtains, rugs and beds
Ghost sign for Black & Son Grocers on the corner of Moat Road and Ventnor Street, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for Black & Son Grocers. Facing Moat Road, the first reads: 'Black's The Grocers'. Facing Ventnor Street, the sign reads: 'Black & Son Grocers'. Between 1996 and 2002, the sign was repainted