Ghost Signs - Paul Cayton LRPS

Art is never finished, only abandoned”

Leonardo da Vinci

Ghost signs are historic, hand-painted advertising or old shop signs on buildings with changed use, often in urban areas, and are part of the historic fabric of the building and the town.

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Gold Flake Tobacco - The Worlds most famous cigarette - Boroughgate, Otley, West Yorkshire

Dove Cote House - Lodging house, Boroughgate Otley, West Yorkshire

Blyth & Tyne Brewery Bonded Warehouse, Sussex Street, Blyth

W Lumley & Son Agricultural Merchants, Undercliffe, Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Arthur Sawdon, Wellington Road, Whitby

Dye Works Ghost Sign, Castle Street, Carlisle

Emergency Water Supply Ghost Sign, Devonshire Walk, Carlisle

Emergency Water Supply, Ghost Sign, Eden Place, Carlisle.

John H Gill's Yard, Leeming Bar, Ironfoundry & Implement Works

Golden Pheasant Syrup Sign, Bensham, Gateshead

Armstrong (top) and We chicks just love (bottom), Ashington, Northumberland

"We chicks just love". Ashington. Northumberland

Ye Old Ship Inn, Seahouses, Northumberland

Anchorage Lane Studios, Northallerton. This sign must have been written after 2000 as that's when UK Mobile numbers had the extra '7' added.

John Wetherill, Anchorage Lane, Northallerton. This sign must have been written after 1995 as that's when UK phone numbers had the additional '1' added.

Woods Twist, Church Avenue, Preston

Seed Merchant, Fox Street, Preston

Victoria Furniture & Carpet Warehouse, Church Row, Preston

Fish, Fruit and Flowers, Blake Street, Leeds

Fish Fruit Flowers Shop Sign, Blake Grove, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, West Yorkshire

House Painter and Decorator, Harehills Lande, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Sharp Thornton, Cross Banstead Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Sharp Thornton are possibly Knife makers

J C Rayner, Milk, Cream Curds, Devon Road, Leeds

Evening News, 50 Cardigan Road, Leeds

Unknown, 50 Cardigan Road, Leeds

Evening News, 50 Cardigan Road, Leeds

Unknown, Trelwan Terrace/ASh Road, Leeds, LS6

Lil's Cafe Ghost Sign, Call Lane, Leeds