Mitcham Road, Tooting
Stuck onto ceramic tiles but long since painted over, Marvo Distemper bravely advertises a long since defunct product (Distemper was a paint made from whiting and glue and a bit of a nightmare if you need to decorate over it due to its powdery nature).
The merest tantalising glimpse of the old signage that lies beneath!
Not much chance of spotting this Chemist on a dark winters night!
What is it about Chemists? This one is in slightly better condition, but has still not worked in years.
These two signs must date back to the 70's I would imagine. Mackeson is a milk stout flavoured with lactose, the sweet element found in milk (hence the milk churn symbol) and is about as unfashionable a drink as it is possible to be at the moment. Whitbread Pale Ale is still around in bottles though.
I think the scouts might have given up on making money by recycling
Home to vast herds of wild horses that continually make a nuisance of themselves on footpaths.
The neon tube may have long since given up the ghost but the shop still sells bikes.
Now a martial arts centre, the memory of a slightly seedier past lives on.
3 comments:
How nice that the cycle sign is still on a cycle shop. Brilliant.
Hi. Really great blog - enjoyed the bit on manhole covers and shop signs. I'm in the process of trying to track down an old London Pharmaceutical Chemist's shop, featured in an unusual book of shop fronts from the 1930s. I wondered if it might be possible to post it to see if anyone recognises where it is/was.
Lovely blog yyou have
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