A new uncovering in Northcote - thanks Leisa!

A fellow ghost sign fan, Leisa Clements, has just sent through these pics of a recently uncovered sign remnant on the corner of High and Bent Streets in the inner-north suburb of Northcote.

Leisa mentions that the tag line “every flake a grain of wheat” was associated with Granose, a Sanitarium product that seems to have been the precursor to Weetbix. 

 

Unfortunately Leisa also mentions that this 'reveal' has come about through the demolition of two lovely buildings that I have long admired – the c.1923 Lew Brothers grocery store and the 1935 Hosking Butchers shop next door. It does mean though that the sign is a very old one. 

Once again, discovery and destruction are entangled as our cities are made and remade.

A day of roaming and snapping

This morning I dropped off my car to the repairer, following an incident the other week when a driver in a supermarket car park backed into my driver's side door. Cest la vie.

Anyway, I had the bike in the back, and the day wasn't wet, so off I went, from Preston into the city.

Along the way, as you'd expect, I snapped some signs:

Side of old milk bar in Northcote...there was once a sign up there

...and there's still a trace at the front.

A few from Carlton on the way in:

A golden glory off Rathdowne Street

...the other side

Can you see the cursive?

Victorian baker

Then later on, after taking the train to St Albans, I rode back to Footscray along Ballarat Road:

 

Lonesome Road: this front's been commonly snapped

...but the side has rarely been. Brilliant Robur Tea sign that I've never noticed before.

Further on Ballarat Road...from the side

and the front...ghost servo.

Front again.

Also Ballarat Road.

Ditto. Old corner store. There's a sign behind here somewhere, but it ain't gonna be revealed any time soon.

A motley bunch of signs

A few stragglers from my Melbourne travels - taken hither and thither over the last month:

Footscray

Footscray

Noth Melbourne

CBD

CBD

Reservoir - an ironic ghost sign?

Thornbury...was a cafe, I think there might have been a fire in it

The rest are from Northcote: