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Ghost sign for R. Kingerley on the corner of Lytham Road and Clarendon Park Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for R. Kingerley. This sign is too severely deteriorated to make out any wording. However, based on past photos from our collection, the words 'R. Kingerley' and 'Grocery' were previously visible. On this same building, facing Clarendon Park Road, there is a second ghost sign advertising 'Cash, Grocery, Provision Stores' which is also available to view through our collection. Between 2016 and 2020, a small window was added to the building, partially obscuring the sign
Ghost signs for Everards, James Hole & Co., Warner's free house and Mitchells & Butlers ales on Granby Road, 2024.
No full textGhost signs for four different companies. The sign farthest to the left is for Everards table water. Next is the sign for James Hole & Co.'s Newark Ales. Besides that sign is a sign for a free house, reading 'Worthington, Bass, Whitbread, Mackeson, Holes, Guinness, M&B, Ice Cream & Minerals'. The M&B likely stands for Mitchells & Butlers. The company name, written about the sign's text is difficult to read in this photo but can be more easily read in the 2002 entry which can be viewed in our collection. The name is 'H.F. Warner'. The sign farthest to the right reads 'Mitchells & Butlers "Good Honest..."'. The sign is partially covered by an off-licence sign but likely reads '"Good Honest Beer"', Mitchells & Butlers' slogan. In 2017, a newly built house partially blocked the sign from view.
Everards, a regional brewery based in Leicester, was founded in 1849 by William Everard and Thomas Hull. The company also began tenanting pubs, now running 175 pubs throughout Leicestershire. The company is still brewing independently today.
James Hole & Co. established their brewery in 1870, becoming an incorporated company in 1890. In 1983, the brewery was closed.
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery was founded in 1898 when it merged Henry Mitchell's old Crown Brewery with William Butler's Brewery. In 1961, the company merged with Bass. Their beer, including their famous Brew XI, is still brewed under the Coors licence. A descendant company under the same name of Mitchells & Butlers still manages pubs, bars and restaurants throughout the UK
Ghost sign for The Pattern Equipment Co. on Baggrave Street, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for The Pattern Equipment Co., reading: 'The Pattern Equipment Co. / ... Patternmakers / Specialists in Metal Pattern / Equipment'. The words 'phone' and the phone number are also included on the sign. This company is now based in Oadby on Mandervell Road
Ghost sign for Hewitt, Hipwell & Jeffs on the corner of Cross Street and Law Street, 2024.
No full textGhost sign reading 'Hewitt' on the corner of Cross Street and Law Street. According to a 1928 trade directory, 2 Cross Street was listed under the company of Hewitt, Hipwell & Jeffs, wholesale hosiers
Ghost sign for Banks's on the corner of Cross Street and Wand Street, 2024.
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 A. J. White's Mother Seigel's Syrup on Ratcliffe Road in Loughborough, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for 'Seigel's Syrup / The World's Remedy for Indigestion'. The sign is severely deteriorated outside of these few words, and while the sign was likely much larger, it is not possible to decipher what else it might have said. There was also a second layer to the sign, but it is too difficult to make out. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup was made by A. J. White, a company originally founded in New York in 1880. The company was registered in Britain in 1884, and in 1897, they took over a company of the same name, acquiring the manufacturing patents for medicines like 'Mother Seigel's Syrup'. In 1908, they advertised that 'There is no form of indigestion or biliousness that will not yield to Mother Seigel’s Syrup'. By 1956, manufacturer Smith Kline and French Labratories acquired the company
Ghost signs for Picture Post and Wills's (W.D. & H.O. Wills) Cigarettes on Lutterworth Road, 2024.
No full textGhost signs for 'Picture Post' and Wills's (W.D. & H.O. Wills) Cigarettes. This sign comprises several layers, and deciphering which layer each sign is on can be difficult. To the left, the word 'Leader', painted in blue, is barely visible, but it is unclear what company this may refer to. Beneath this sign are the words 'Wills's "Capstan" Cigarettes'. There is also a ghost sign for the newspaper 'Picture Post' which has severely deteriorated. To the right, the sign reads: 'Wills's "Star" Cigarettes'. In the past, a ghost sign for 'Sweets', written on a yellow ribbon, was visible, but it has since entirely deteriorated. There is lettering painted over the 'Wills's' sign on the right, but the word is not legible: '...eadmers'.
Wills's (also called W.D. and H.O. Wills) was founded in 1786 as Wills, Watkins & Co. by Henry Overton Wills and Samuel Watkins in Bristol, UK. They became tobacconists and snuff-makers, eventually becoming the first mass-producer of cigarettes in Britain. After several partnership changes, the company was renamed W.D. and H.O. Wills in 1815. In 1894, Capstan Cigarettes, unfiltered British cigarettes, were launched. In 1901, Imperial Tobacco Co. was formed after a merger with Wills and several other British tobacco companies. Imperial Tobacco Co. remains one of the world's largest tobacco companies, but the Wills brand was withdrawn from the UK in 1988. Wills's Star cigarettes were manufactured until 1954.
'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 'Hopkins' on Evington Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign reading 'Hopkins' a butchery near the corner of Evington Road and Lyme Road. In 1932, Fred Hopkins, a butcher, was at 1 Lyme Road. Earlier, in 1916, he had been at 14 Devana Rd and the building at Lyme Rd wasn’t a shop. By 1963, a Mrs. Fannie Hopkins was listed as the butcher at 1 Lyme Road
Ghost sign for a grocery shop on the corner of Montague Road and St. Leonards Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for a grocery, reading: 'Grocery and Provision Dealer'. Below this is a smaller section reading: 'Tobacco Cigars'. Wright's Leicester Directory from 1911 lists a Thomas Goodman, shopkeeper, at 101 Montague Road
Ghost sign for Kays Foodstores on the corner of Bassett Street and Central Road, 2024.
No full textGhost sign for Kays Foodstores. Between 2008 and 2012, the sign was painted over; however, the sign can be faintly seen beneath the paint, especially on the Central Road side. Kays Foodstores (also called Kays Modern Food Stores) were founded in 1921 by John Jay Kay who opened the first Kays in Norwich. In 1931, William Nelson Overland became Kays business partner with both men involved in property development and retailing. By 1938, 104 branches of Kays Foodstores existed with fleets of vans and errand boys for home delivery. Kay's shops sported bright red fascias, indicated in the red design of this ghost sign. In 1943 when Overland died, Kay sold the chain to Moores Stores Ltd., but the shops did not last long after WWII due to their small size and lack of self-service potential. By 1953, almost every storefront had closed down