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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I knew that one (my cousin used to live just round the corner back in the '70s), but never got a photo of it before it disappeared.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you know about the London Ghost Signs map, in case there's anything else in the vicinity? reeddesign.co.uk/ghostsignsmap/

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London Ghost Signs Map (and Book) - ReedDesign

This page shows a map of just over 1,000 ghost signs in London.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's on the rear of this building on the edge of the Heath near the junction of Swain's Lane and Highgate Road. Refreshments, Dinners, Suppers First Class Tea Rooms Upstairs Cigarettes, Teas, Snacks, Ices Catering for Beanfeasts, Parties, Clubs

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, definitely showing my age.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's mine. Make your own: www.my9albums.com

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PS - the map was done as an adjunct to our book on London's Ghost Signs - new edition out soon. ghostsigns.co.uk/publications...

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Ghost Signs: A London Story | Ghostsigns

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks. I hope it's OK to use your photo on the map pin - with credit of course.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you remember where on the High Road? I'd like to add this to my map of London's ghost signs. reeddesign.co.uk/ghostsignsmap/

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London Ghost Signs Map (and Book) - ReedDesign

This page shows a map of just over 1,000 ghost signs in London.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bedruthan Steps on the North Cornwall coast.

A coastal scene with tall, rugged cliffs dropping to a sandy beach below. Waves roll in gently from a blue sea, leaving pale lines of surf along the shoreline. The cliff tops are dotted with patches of grass, and the sky above is dotted with clouds.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A couple of chaffinches, a scruffy marsh tit and a robin, seen on the Camel Trail near Wadebridge this afternoon.

A chaffinch perching on a lichen covered branch.

A robin perching on a branch with green leaves in the background.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today we had bar-tailed godwits at Wadebridge #Cornwall (three in total, but they wouldn't pose for a nice group shot).

A Bar‑tailed Godwit stands in shallow tidal water, its long black legs partly submerged. The bird’s plumage is mottled brown, buff, and white, with fine streaking across the back and wings. It holds a long, slightly upturned bill (pink at the base and dark at the tip) pointed toward the wet mud as if searching for food.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The black-tailed godwit was back on the River Camel in Wadebridge #Cornwall today.

A long‑legged wading bird stands in shallow rippled water. It has mottled reddish-brown and buff plumage, a long straight bill that is pink at the base and dark at the tip, and slender black legs

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Earlier this month I did some filming with Better Bankside for their social media team. This is the first despatch of what will likely be four or five similar segments from locations on my Bankside Ghostsigns Walk: ghostsigns.co.uk/tours. This […] [Original post on typo.social]

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 16/09/2026

Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, 1933. Now famous for the Bile Beans ghostsign, but it used to be … STANLEY’S WINTER NIPS

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Black-tailed Godwit seen this afternoon on the River Camel at Wadebridge, Cornwall. @cbwps.org.uk

A long‑legged wading bird stands in shallow water beside a rocky shore. It has mottled reddish-brown and buff plumage, a long straight bill that is pink at the base and dark at the tip, and slender black legs.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovely rainbow over Wadebridge #Cornwall earlier this morning.

Panoramic photo of a rainbow arcing above a small town on the bank of a river with a bridge crossing the river to the right.

Detail of a rainbow rising from the ground and arcing to the right in front of some houses and a wooded hillside.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chromatic Architecture celebrates the beauty of colourful buildings Adam Nathaniel Furman and Kate Mazade’s book explains how colour has elevated and enlivened architecture for thousands of years ✍️ @rowanmoore.bsky.social bit.ly/4A7UjFA

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Chromatic Architecture celebrates the beauty of colourful...

Adam Nathaniel Furman and Kate Mazade's book explains how colour has elevated and enlivened architecture for thousands of years

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The ones that fooled me are the faux shop fascias on the Rookery Hotel on Cowcross Street. maps.app.goo.gl/Q8ADPF1xL3ea...

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think they might reference the names of companies who traded from there in the past, but I don't think there were signs there.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Faux ghostsigns painted in 2017 by property developers Ballymore.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hain's offices were on the corner of Tregenna Pl and Street-An-Pol and were used as a Wetherspoon pub (The Hain Line - closed in 2024) not far from the ghostsign. But that didn't open until 2012, so the sign couldn't have been part of the publicity for that.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hain Steamship Co. Est. 1889 - a #ghostsign taken in St Ives, Cornwall in 2005. It was painted on a boathouse door near the harbour, but is it genuine or a fake? The Hain family were trading in the 1800s, but the company was actually registered in 1901. Does anyone know?

A faded painted sign on an old, large wooden door. Sign shows a red flag with a black square bearing a white 'H'. Below it are the words 'Hain Steamship Co. Est. 1889'.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, that was when Jeff Hamilton left after his heart attack in 1996.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@cornishbirdblog.com Congratulations on your bardship (if that's a word).

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking at that map, all I can say is thank god for Harry Beck!

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: c.im/@Stuck_Here/117190679305979256 Do you think the appreciation of, and fascination with, ghost signs is a form of 'nagori' as explained here? Reminds me of the artist, whose name I can't remember, who installed a frame filled with freshly cut roses — the beauty was to be found […]

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nowhere near as pretty, but there are a couple of nice old poster #ghostsigns preserved at South Wimbledon tube station (at the bottom of the escalator).

An old poster from about 1920 advertising a car dealership.

Morris Saloon
Buy your Morris
From the Largest South London Dealers
Jarvis & Sons Ltd
Guaranteed Service
Best Exchange Allowance
Low Deferred Terms
Delivery from Stock
Showrooms & Works
Victoria Crescent
Five minutes from this station
Complete Stock / Morris Spares, Trade, Retail Supplied
Phone Wimbledon 2526 (4 Lines)
Established 1865
Jarvis & Sons Limited, Wimbledon

An old poster from about 1920 advertising an estate agent and mortgage broker.

In Wimbledon, Merton, Morden, Etc.
Prices 600 Upwards
Mortgages Arranged
Apply
Frank N Bateman
53 Broadway, Wimbledon
Phone Wimbledon 2800 (2 Lines)

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Today @royreed.bsky.social and I got our advance author copies of 'London's Ghost Signs', the reissue of our 2021 book, 'Ghost Signs: A London Story'. Our new publisher, Metro, has done a great job of reproducing all the original content (with updates) in the […] [Original post on typo.social]

Two books side by side on a wooden table. They both have photos of fading painted signs on buildings on the cover. The bigger book on the left is titled 'Ghost Signs: A London Story' and the smaller one is called 'London's Ghost Signs'.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There's a few around. I know of three more in London (the others are Spitalfields, Peckham and Eltham) and four around the country including your one (St Albans, Chester and Shrewsbury are the others).

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The two 'Commit No Nuisance' #ghostsigns on the corner of Great Guildford Street and Doyce Street, Southwark just south of the River Thames in London. They are a euphemism for "don't urinate against this wall".

An old brick wall with an old faded sign with a white background and scalloped corners saying "Commit No Nuisance". On the wall below the sign is a graffitied Anarchist sign. In the foreground is a section of a metallic blue car.

An old brick wall with an old faded sign with a white background and scalloped corners saying "Commit No Nuisance". On either side of the sign are black drainpipes and at the bottom is the yellow stripe of a 'no parking' sign.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I hope you spotted that the ghostsign was a palimpsest with two layers.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks so much to Elle Decor UK for featuring our new book 'Chromatic Architecture' in the current edition

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It looks like Dryad’s Saddle (Cerioporus squamosus). It can grow up to about 2ft across. www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/10...

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Bracket Fungi ID: Common UK Species - Woodland Trust

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Creative courage? Be brave and get a copy of Chromatic Architecture: www.ribabooks.com/Chromatic-Ar...

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 24/08/2026

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you want to do something tangible to make the government listen to you about the Dirty Business privatised water scandal, please sign and share. Over 50K have already and we need about 50K more to for a debate, but we want a million. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here's a couple photos I took of Number One Croydon in March 1974.

A twenty-four storey octagonal building looking like a pile of 50p pieces or old fashioned threepenny bits.

A twenty-four storey octagonal building at night looking like a pile of 50p pieces or old fashioned threepenny bits.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It was called the thr'penny bit building back in the '70s.

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's a really beautiful book. Really glad a few of my photos of All Saints, Margaret Street were included. www.flickr.com/gp/royreed/4...

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All Saints Church, Margaret Street

All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London

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Roy Reed @royreed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is what the ghost sign originally looked like. Chemicals & Sundry Requisites Developing, Printing, Enlarging Quality & Quick Service Wootton’s Cash Chemist J. Hearle M.P.S. Dispensing Chemist Hours of Business 9am to 6.30pm Thursday to 1pm Toilet & Nursery Requisites Photographic Materials

The gable end of a three storey brick building with a 'reconstructed' sign painted on the wall.

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