Ghost Sign .....

..... advertising Bile Beans!

Well, I've spotted one, on the A6 at Walkden. It's appeared on an end terraced house gable after a 'paste-on' hoarding has been shifted.

I'm going to take it's picture on my way past next week. I hope they don't cover it up first !

Coming back from Stoke earlier, there was a trailer parked in a farmers field. No advertising, just a lot of Islamic tripe.

No. There's no such thing. It's Arabic.

It was in English, the message was islamic tripe.

There's a black container parked in a farmers field, off the north-bound M6, with Arabic writing on it in white.

There's also two containers, one off the M40,the other off the M6 near Birmingham, advertising "PHANTOM CARS"!

Hope you can get a photo of the ghost sign in Walkden, Tonker.

Some pics nicked from Twitter - Link

Salterhebble Hill in Halifax (9th Nov):



@NoAitchAlifax

One restored in York:

@NoAitchAlifax

I’m just wondering if there are any ghost signs in Wigan (Borough)?

The old Galvin's Temperance Bar sign that was uncovered on the Stone Masons shop on Darlington Street East a few years ago.

It was an islam message, nothing to do with advertising, more to do wi9th entrapping more followers to the cult

Swifty's stone mason shop. Never looks open.

There is one on the gable end of a cottage just higher up than the BEN JOHNSON pub. Appears that this was the original BEN JOHNSON pub. You can easily make it out as you drive towards town just before the lights at Sainsbury's

Does anyone remember Dawsons Squares?

Admin, someone submitted this picture to Twitter in Aug 2019:


@willriley100 / @ghostsigns

Tonker, just wondering did you ever get a photo of the old Bile Beans sign you saw?

Anyone any ideas where this ghost sign is in Wigan?

Yes, jo anne. In fact, I only tookthe pic last week. I'll upload it right now, while I'm having this cup of tea!

Yay, that’s brilliant, Tonker!

(Doesn’t it drive you crazy when someone parks in the way! )

"Anyone any ideas where this ghost sign is in Wigan?"

Yes, and there was once (circa 1989) a nasty murder down there

Did anybody go to court for it?

I didn’t know about that, TTS. It is indeed the old Royal Court Theatre building on King Street.



www.royalcourttheatre.org.uk

Tonker

Yes I think they got two of them for it, one was a lad from Scholes, and it was a homophobic attack, and a nasty one too.

I think the lad who got murdered worked at Eckersleys. Think it was down the opposite entrance where the old British Restaurant used to be?

riocaroni

Eckersleys - Pub or Mill ?

TTS mill, he used to call in the Crooked Wheel now and again.

Rio,
Did you ever know old Joe Gough. I last worked with him around 1980. Used to pick him up near the Wheel.

Knew Joe well, did you know he was the last resident of the Royal George workhouse in Scholes. Told many a good tale of being a can lad on the building sights, he was a real character sadly missed.

Salt of the earth. Never,ever late when I was picking him up.

I remember that murder in king street, yes it was a very nasty slaughter, I worked with the lad who was murdered at Dorma sheets {Eckersleys}, they arrested a guy from scholes.