Visited the new Chicago Brand Museum today. It's fascinating. (It's not a museum of just Chicago brands; it's a museum of lots of brand, which happens to be located in Chicago.) Fans of typography, graphic design, package design, and more will love it.
The Batchworth Sea Scouts have changed their sign. 😔 All that great lettering gone, though some ghosts remain.
I'm in York on Yorkshire Day! Love this historic shop front on Fishergate for TM Oxtoby & Son, it reminded me a bit of a Peter Mitchell photograph.
Happy Friendship Day! 🫂 Here are members of the Ilford Women’s Co-operative Guild ready in an open-topped coach for an outing to Brighton on 24 June 1926.
This morning’s #ThrowbackThursday spot was 48-50 High Street, now home to GDK Colchester. The historic photo shows the frontage of F W Woolworth and Company Limited at 48-50 High Street, photographed between 1920 and 1930.
The fabulous Art Nouveau style shopfront of Zara in Nottingham, originally Boots the Chemist. #ShopFrontFriday
In a crowded field, this was my favourite of the #ghostsigns I saw in Bath last week. #WallsonWednesday
We had to share this photograph of Marks & Spencer, 12 Broad Street, Reading, from 1912! It's fascinating to see how the store has evolved over more than 100 years, especially its exterior, from a Penny Bazaar store to the global retailer we know and love today.
A bit of patina on the milepost in Norton St Philip, Somerset.
Painted shop fascia sign in London Street, Bath for Frederick William Wake's tobacconist & newsagent shop dating from the mid C20th.
Lovely palimpsest shop fascia with reference to a Tobacconist and my favourite..'Fancy Goods.' #SignsonSunday
Some great examples of van signwriting in the Leyland Motors Catalogue from 1914.
