Milk, drinks and alcohol from around Melbourne

Some more signs to pass on. Firstly, the Gilmour's Milk sign uncovered by accident on Moreland Road, Brunswick:

Now for Moonee Ponds and the brilliant Marchants drink sign I heard about on Facebook recently, followed by a few others in the area. Note the smiling faces of the cartoon kids on the Marchants sign:

Now for the fantastic wall of signs near Seaholme station (Altona). This was previously snapped by Tony Mead, but I had to see it in person:

The tea, by the way, is Glen Valley tea...looks like it was a locally distributed brand. See the following sign (right hand side), courtesy Public Records Office of Victoria

And last, a building with Victorian ghost signs, in Williamstown on the way back:

Brilliant ghost sign cluster in Altona/Seaholme

Signwriting artisan Tony Mead has just sent me some pics of of a great cluster of signs on a wall in Station Street, Altona/Seaholme. Here they are:

Medallion Foods sign...looks circa 1952, judging by this similar sign in the Lewis & Skinner archives: http://www.lewisandskinner.com/items/show/1589