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  • Author's Guided Tours of London
    • Minories to Poplar
    • Woolwich Alldayer
    • Roman Road
    • Whitechapel & Bethnal Green
    • Derelict Limehouse & Poplar
    • Lost Docks of Wapping
    • Isle of Dogs
    • Grand Surrey Canal
    • London's Lost Rivers Tours
    • Shadwell & Stepney
    • Silvertown
    • Bow Creek: River Lea from Bromley by Bow to Leamouth via Canning Town
    • Croydon Canal
    • Dartford guided walk
    • Hammersmith
    • East Finchley to Gospel Oak
    • London's Lost Music Venues
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  • London's Lost Rivers - The Book & Website
  • London Transport
    • Derelict London Tube Trains and Stations
    • Derelict London Railway Stations,Lines and Rolling Stock
    • Derelict London Trams
  • Factories and Warehouses
    • North of the Thames Factories and Warehouses
    • South of the Thames Factories and Warehouses
  • Derelict London Homes
    • Homes North of the Thames
    • Homes South of The Thames
    • Derelict homes now Demolished
  • Derelict London Cinemas
  • Derelict London Hospitals
    • Hospitals North of the River
    • Hospitals South of the River
    • Hospitals: Then & Now pics
  • Derelict London Pools and Baths
  • Music History
    • London's Lost Music venues 2
  • Various Derelict London Buildings
  • Derelict London Pubs
    • North London
    • Derelict East London Pubs >
      • East London Pubs from Dereliction to Demolition
      • East London Pubs - Dead Pubs to Conversion
      • East London Pubs Back from the Brink
    • Central London
    • West & South West London
    • South & South East London Pubs
  • Derelict London Cemetery & Churches
  • Derelict London Hotels and Restaurants
  • Graffiti & Streetart
  • Misc London Derelict pics
  • Derelict London Cafes
  • People
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  • Derelict London Shops
  • Signs and Murals
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  • Toys
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  • London's Long Lost Sports Grounds
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    • Derelict Kent DA postcodes
    • Derelict Kent ME postcodes
    • Derelict Kent TN postcodes
  • Derelict Essex
    • Derelict Essex RM postcodes
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​Derelict London - Signs and Murals​

Derelict London - Signs and Murals

Here's a collection of ghostsigns, decaying streetsigns or just quirky signs or notices that I have come across on my travels.
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Lifesize print of Jim Delaney adorning the window of a bar in Shoreditch a few years ago
Please do not ask for credit in this garage in Whitechapel
Whitechapel
Whitechapel graffiti Don't Throw Rubish [sic]
(Tower Hamlets)
Wet paint sign on peeling surface in Muswell Hill, N10
Muswell Hill, N10
pointer to Creative Space  in Kentish Town NW5
Kentish Town, NW5
Fuck Modern Football sticker in South Norwood, SE25 near Crystal Palace's Selhurst park Ground
South Norwood, SE25
No Smoking. We are sick of it all warning sign and sticker for the band outside recording studio in  Muswell Hill, N10
Muswell Hill, N10
Women are asked not to linger here - sign on the Finchley Rd, St Johns Wood
St Johns Wood
vandalised estate agent board in Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia
What is
Greenwich
Ken & Deirdre Barlow poster at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London
Ken & Deirdre in Highgate
Clapton: Keep Clear Lorries Loading painted on brick wall
Clapton

tiled brewery advertisement for Forest Hill Beers in Brixton, SW4. The brewery was based in Perry Vale , Forest Hill, SE23)

Forest Hill Beers Sign - Brixton, SW4


I spotted this rare tiled brewery advertisement when cutting through the back streets of Brixton last summer & actually got round to taking this pic a couple of weeks ago when visiting someone in Tintern Street. 

The Forest Hill Brewery (located in Perry Vale, SE23) started in Victorian times and closed in the 1920s after being taken over by Whitbread and brewing operations moved north of the river. This sign was covered over for many years and restored 5 years ago when discovered by the owner of the hair salon next door.

POPLAR - LONDON DOCKLANDS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LDDC) SIGN 


The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was a quango agency set up by the UK Government in 1981 to regenerate the  Docklands area of London. It was responsible for regenerating an area of 8.5 square miles in the London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Southwark. 

LDDC helped to create Canary Wharf, Surrey Quays shopping centre, London City Airport, ExCeL Exhibition Centre and the Docklands Light Railway. It withdrew from Bermondsey in 1994, followed by Beckton in 1995, the Surrey Docks in 1996, from Wapping, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs in 1997, and finally from the Royal Docks in late 1998.the powers it held reverted to the London Boroughs.

This sign in Poplar that was erected before all the Canary Wharf towers behind it became surrounded by a hedge which provided protection it and outlived the LDDC and became forgotten until the hedge was trimmed in 2013. However, the sad news is that the storms early in 2014 brought it down (& blew away?) and only remnants of the posts remain. Shame, as we always used to stop and look at the sign when on my Derelict London Limehouse & Poplar guided walking tour. 
London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) sign in Poplar near entrance to Isle of Dogs
LDDC Poplar Parkway

CAMBERWELL - MYSTERIOUS BLUE PLAQUE 


The Southwark News ran an article on this mysterious blue plaque that simply says "This plaque was installed 6th May 2010." The paper submitted a query to the Southwark Blue Plaque scheme steering committee who confirmed it was not their work & also asked those involved in Camberwell Arts Week, but nobody laid claim to the plaque.

This plaque was originally seen north of the river in Rivington Street near Old Streetat what was called the Dirty Square Gallery. This "gallery" was not in a building but on a brick wall. Along with the plaque was a small picture frame and a few coins stuck to the wall. The Blue Plaque' was made by Leo Koivistoinen and Eilidh Short. There is no explanation of why it made it down to Camberwell Station Road. Incidently, if you were wondering why it is called Camberwell Station Road its because there WAS once a railway station in Camberwell - the former station building in its current state can be found elsewhere on this website.

Camberwell Station Rd: This plaque was installed 6th May 2010
The mysterious blue plaque in Camberwell

Jellied Eel & Seafood Van in Bermondsey
Bermondsey
Millwall FC Wacker Youth Lest We Forget
Elephant & Castle
New Cross Electronic Repairs Sky Installations Systems
New Cross
Archway
Spitalfields
Bromley-by-Bow
Bromley-by-Bow

GHOSTSIGNS 

For your throats sake smoke signage for Craven A cigarettes on the Brixton Rd near the OvalCraven A Ghostsign on the Brixton Rd

A ghost sign is a hand painted on brick wall sign preserved but slowly fading decades after their painting. The durable lead-based paints used in the early to mid-20th century were a major factor in why these have lasted so long.

The signage may be kept for its nostalgic appeal, or simply indifference by the owner.


Warning Signs

Amateur Publically Displayed Signs/Notices



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This is the famous Catford Cat above the entrance to the shopping centre
Deptford Banksy No Dumpin Somone On Site 24 hlr
Great spelling and an original Banksy in the corner. This was taken in 2004 in Deptford. The place has since been bulldozed and is shiny new flats
Banksy on a traffic bollard in London. Suicidal at the petrol pumps
This was a Banksy in the West End a few years ago
Broken  sign in Beckton advertising industrial units to let
Beckton
Rusty sign for London Industrial Park in Beckton
Beckton
930,000 empty homes in the UK Do the Maths
Isle of Dogs

Newsagent Boards


Murals

Various Bits and Pieces - slideshow


Refuse dumped in Camberwell despite sign requesting not to do so
Do Not Put Garbage Near The Window.....
Support your local squats sticker on private no parking sign in Hackney
Support Your Local Squats
Fading signs in Bidder Street in Canning Town
Canning Town

VAUXHALL - LASSCO AT BRUNSWICK HOUSE - LONDON STREETSIGNS FOR SALE

As seen in the Then & Now Section on this website Brunswick House is a Georgian mansion house, built in 1758 purchased in 1811 by the Duke of Brunswick, who fled to England after taking part in the battle of Wagram against Napoleon but returned to Brunswick in 1813 and was killed in battle two years later. The once derelict house, now dwarfed by the St George Wharf development has now been restored by a firm called Lassco who are using the building as a shop selling fascinating architectural antiques & salvage such as old fireplaces from old properties.
London streetsigns for sale at Lassco at Brunswick House in Vauxhall
Lassco in Vauxhall

And finally. Some public notices in Purley and Dartford:

Keep Your Pissing Dog Away From The Building !!! (notice in Purley)
Can you please stop peeing in the letterbox. If not, smile you are on CCTV (sign in Dartford)


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