Roy Reed 💙

There are now over 950 #ghostsigns marked on my London Ghostsigns Map. The map is an accompaniment to our book 'Ghost Signs: A London Story' which can be purchased direct from Isola Press. isolapress.com/shop/ghost-sig… reeddesign.co.uk/ghostsignsmap/

I'm not going to close my Twitter account immediately, but I won't be posting or giving likes on here any more. Thanks to anyone who has given me follows, likes or reposts. After 15 years of Twitter I hope to see you on the other side.

I've been thinking of leaving Twitter (I still can't call it X) for some time. I've had a BlueSky and Mastodon account for 18 months and a large number of the people I know here are on one or both of those platforms. @NellytheWillow

Zennor Quoit - the exterior stones are believed to have been for resting dead bodies against for the flesh to be devoured by birds before burial. The chamber dates to between 2500 and 1500bce and is one of 8 remaining quoits on the W Penwith moors #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Street Art Portrait by Damitta - Stockwell Hall of Fame

#ghostsign Any ideas as to what it says/said? Bottle Lane #Nottingham @ghostsignsuk @ghostsigns

One of the stones from the Trippet Stones #stonecircle on Bodmin Moor #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Hovis #ghostsign on the corner of Hotham Road and Merton High Street #London Maker of Hovis Bread

The last remnant of a sign for Lipton's Tea sandwiched between two houses. Lipton's Tea If you want the best tea go to the firm that grows it. #ghostsign

@Tetramesh That's not a pub, it's a restaurant!

It seems every pub i walk in to has half the tables reserved. What nonsense is this? Is this the new norm in London (or the UK)? No wonder the pub industry is on its knees.

Some of the stones from The Hurlers - a group of three stone circles at the SE edge of Bodmin Moor #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

@ESDale77 What a sad story.

Possible WW2 #ghostsign near Clapham Junction indicating where sand was kept for extinguishing incendiary bombs.

Should have added a #StandingStoneSunday hashtag!

Lanyon Quoit - originally dating to about 3000bce. After collapsing during a storm in 1815 it was reconstructed in 1824 when the uprights were shortened and squared off. It now has a different alignment, is shorter than the original and is missing one of the uprights.

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

@Portaspeciosa @todbooklady @NellytheWillow @ChurchMonuments I was 12 in 1964. I loved Look and Learn. Do you remember 'The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire'?

@RoyReed13 @todbooklady @NellytheWillow @ChurchMonuments I was 8 in 1964 and forced to read Look and Learn.

Take Courage - what we all need to do in these blighted times.

@NellytheWillow Well, the scaffolding has come down and part of the sign is back (in a different position), but for some reason they've only replaced the top half of the sign. The bottom half which has the all-important 'S' postal district has gone.

Lark Hall Rise S (corner of Cubitt Terrace) - one of the last two 'S' postal district street signs left in London has been removed from this wall during the redecoration of the building in December 2024. It would have been to the right of the blue section of ladder.

@Portaspeciosa @todbooklady @NellytheWillow @ChurchMonuments Not always. From 1964, when it took over from the Daily Herald, to 1969 when Murdoch got his hands on it, it was a paper that was intended to add a readership of "social radicals" to the Herald's "political radicals".

@todbooklady @NellytheWillow @ChurchMonuments Good, it was always a dreadful rag.

@ColinSpenc4257 All of them, and the coal man delivered by horse and cart.

Which ones do you Remember.