Bird spotting in North Fitzroy...as well as other creatures

Yesterday I was booked into an Indigenous walk along Merri Creek, which was cancelled at the last minute.

So instead I reacquainted myself with the uber-gentrified streets of one-was-working-class North Fitzroy...and found a few beauties.

On the way to the walk, I had seen a round mark on a wall - here's what it looked like close up. It looks like it's a sign for the Rosella brand of jams, whose factory can be found in Richmond:

A few streets down were two lovingly restored buildings on the same block, each with its own sign:

 Plus also spied a few other faint traces here and there, as well as rephotographed two old Robur favourites - one that seems to have revealed extra layers as it has aged, and another whose remaining traces have been further covered with posters:

This old laneway factory has a "partial demolition" sign on it.

Down another laneway

Nearly gone...

  

Nearly gone 2...

And here are the Robur signs:

A bunch of great sign pics from Leisa

Thanks Leisa Clements for sending through such a group group of pics from around Melbourne town. Here are the signs I haven't posted about yet. Some are still there and some are long gone:


CBD:

This one's on death row apparently.

 

Leisa says: Henry Berry & Co was a well-known salt merchant and wholesaler located in Collins Street c.1920-60. This warehouse is at the rear in Francis Street. (Another pic follows).

 

Flinders Street station in 2009...note the embossed lettering around the letter box

 

 

Richmond:

Fitzroy. Leisa writes that this Brunswick Street sign has been painted over:

Parkville:

North Fitzroy. Leisa writes that Drews Cakes is listed on the Yarra heritage citation as a confectioners shop:

Eaglemont - Leisa writes about these two signs:

The Eaglemont Nestle sign is still there but the Cadbury window in the old milk bar is gone. When I went there in 2009 it was the office of a heritage architect and she’d had the sign restored after it had been vandalised. Now it’s been completely removed and the lovely brass window frames painted over. The shop still had counters and cupboards.

Brunswick/Coburg:

Apparently this one has been painted over

Latest backlog of ghost signs from around Melbourne

Here are the latest photographic fruits of my travels around Melbourne.

Firstly to Victoria Street, Collingwood, where a fab Indian Root Pills sign was once rendered in the same  large and loud fashion seen in some recent Indian Root Pills uncoverings. You can still see remnants of the cobalt blue background:

And around the corner, a reminder of the old industrial Collingwood:

And from a drive to Greensborough, incorporating a bike ride along the Plenty River:

In the back blocks behind the Plenty River - some ghost signs on ghost vehicles:

West Melbourne railway bridge. Bowens Hardware in North Melbourne used to be client of mine in my first job - writing and producing telephone 'on hold' messages:

...and around the corner, a glimpse of an uncovering:

Now to North Melbourne and Flemington: Briquettes ads:

Plume Motor Spirit (Vacuum Oil Company). Have passed this many times before, but this time the light was just right to see it:

Penfolds ad:

Tuxan shoe polish. Not technically a ghost sign though, since the shop is still going.

This one's also still going, but the sign is nice:

Greys is better!

Have snapped this milk bar sign before, but unfortunately the other side has now been smashed:

A few from the former McCabe factory in....McCabe Street:

And now to North Carlton and Brunswick:

Stood in next door's front yard for this one (there was no fence). The resident saw me but was very gracious :)

Now a cafe, but the exquisite sign's been kept

Was an engineering workshop, is now apartments

One from Fitzroy:

From Mark H, one from the city:

...and another in the CBD - the famous 60s modernist statement, with old tram signs: