Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >Both very cool, Chris! Thanks for sharing. >That multi-layered one... the yellow seems to say BULL DURHAM. (I'll >need to have a pint and work on the rest). >: ) > >Bull Durham (tobacco) did a LOT of building signage apparently: >http://signs.lawrenceotoole.com/2012/04/bull-durham-smoking-tobacco.html >http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/09/bull-durham-ghost-sign.html >http://www.flickr.com/photos/brulelaker/6674640413/ >http://7thstreetnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghost-bull-durham-sign-restored.html > > >On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Chris Mitchell ><chris.mitch...@which.net> wrote: >> On 30 July 2012 16:41, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> These images are purely documentary, but for those of you who enjoy >>> "Ghost Signs" here are two examples from the same building in my >home >>> town. Ghost signs painted on chalk brick (like these) tend to show >up >>> best when the brick gets wet, and we were fortunate enough to get a >>> decent rain overnight (finally some moisture!) I drive past this >>> building on my way to work every day, but the way the signs were >>> "popping" and the overcast light this morning combined to provide >the >>> motivation for me to pull over and get them recorded. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/7677143598/in/photostream/ >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/7677143294/in/photostream/ >>> >>> For those interested there is also a Flickr group dedicated to Ghost >>> Signs, which has over 21,000 images: >>> http://www.flickr.com/groups/10285999@N00/ >>> >> Thanks for posting Darren. I've always been interested in these. >> Here's one in Galena, Illinois which seems to be multi-layered: >> http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Galena/slides/_IGP2945.html >> >> And here's a fun one in Cockermouth in the English Lake District, not >> quite as faded, but disappearing fast. It should be listed by English >> Heritage to preserve it: >> http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/LakeDistrict2011_/slides/_IGP8938.html >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. > > > >-- >"The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's >own, is to get over the confusion >by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is >the other way around." > > -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions.
Well well! That first link is my Galena building. I must have been half way up those steps... Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
