A bunch from Brunswick

Here are some Brunswick signs I've snapped over the last couple of months. I would have thought that I'd have seen every sign in that suburb by now, but they keep popping up:

 

 

Great former fuel & stockfeed shop in West Brunnie (both sides):

Latest Victorian article about ghost signs

This time it's from ABC Local, in the delightfully named Sunraysia agricultural region of northern Victoria:

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2015/07/07/4269066.htm

The Guilford Lane district revisited

Last week I went back to a favourite little precinct of former Victorian red brick stables, then mainly motorcycle shops, behind Queen Street and La Trobe Street in central Melbourne.

All around the precinct, like in a lot of Melbourne's CBD, a fury of high-rise development has been rising ever upwards. It's given the precinct quite a unique feel, like a movie set or toy city. Needless to say, it's a hipster haven - but is still a charming place to visit.

There are quite a few great signs to be seen along the few hundred metres of laneway. Here are some:

 

 

The angled corners were apparently built that way to accommodate horse-driven coaches

A peek under the floorboards at the everyday life of a 1960s student at a Wellington school

What a fabulous bit of ephemera, discovered by vandals uncovering floorboards in an Addams Family-looking Victorian school in Wellington, New Zealand (apparently where Peter Jackson filmed part of The Frighteners). Uncovered was the everyday remains of a 1960s student's eating, living and studying habits.

Thank you DARIAN ZAM for posting it to this blog last year - have only just noticed it.

https://longwhitekid.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-shelf-life-of-reilly/

Brunswick - a great old milk bar, plus some other locals

I've been traipsing in and around Brunswick a bit of late, and in doing so have stumbled on a few ghost sign finds along the way.

Firstly, a former milk bar in the back streets of Brunswick East:

You can just make out some signs at the top....

What's hiding under there?

Robur Tea!

 

 

And speaking of Robur Tea, last week I revisited the Robur roof near Melville Road, West Brunswick for some more shots. Up close it looks like this:

Notice the other faint ghost signs up the top too:

But when you walk further down the street, the message becomes clearer:

Here's a view from the back, showing another Robur sign:

Around the corner, a few other motley signs:

Bad time of day to take a pic, sorry

Further down Melville Road, there's this:

And in the back streets nearby:

Lastly, a hint of something elaborate on a wall in upper Lygon Street: