Walsall wall advertisement

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    Amazing painted advertisement, 1950s?

    Bollops, dougiebeck, Gary S. Crutchley, mondoagogo, and Marina Freitas added this photo to their favorites.

    1. Gary S. Crutchley 71 months ago | reply

      Yes, it is superb. But don't tell our council it is old, they will flatten the building! Great photograph!

    2. TinTrunk 71 months ago | reply

      Thanks Gary S! I promise I'll keep it a secret.

    3. Scoobymoo 71 months ago | reply

      Too late.

      This house (along with its neighbour) were proposed as additions to the 'List of Buildings of Local Architectural and Historic Interest' in Walsall in 2005/6 - description below...

      ***
      Pair of Georgian townhouses, converted to shops later C19. Three storeys in red brick. First floor windows have good Regency lintels and modern ‘imitation sash’ wooden windows. No. 238 also has a stone cornice, absent from next door, which may be slightly later in date. The matching shop fronts are good, and are probably mid-Victorian. They are divided by an unusual corbel in the form of a man’s bearded face, this may or may not relate to the original trade of the shop. No. 236 has the added feature of a 1940s or 50s hand painted advertisement hoarding for ‘Orantips tea’ on its side elevation, including a picture of ‘Little Miss Barber’, who says ‘always ask for Orantips’. No. 238 is of local and national historic importance as the home of one of the ‘Walsall Anarchists’, who scandalised Victorian society. It is marked by a blue plaque.
      ***

    4. TinTrunk 71 months ago | reply

      Ooh, thanks for all the info, Scoobymoo.

      I do hope it is/was listed - although even that is never a guarantee that it will survive.

      The scandalous 'Walsall Anarchists' sound intriguing.

    5. Scoobymoo 71 months ago | reply

      According to an offering on Amazon:

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      Offers an account of the notorious framing of the Walsall Anarchists by Britain's political police under Inspector Melville in the 1890s
      ***

      Synopsis of the 26 page pamphlet available at the bargain price of a quid.

    6. TinTrunk 71 months ago | reply

      Great tip, much obliged Scoobymoo.

    7. Thorbj¢rn 57 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Facade/What They Want Us To See/This Superficial World/Flat, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    8. Ghostsigns 49 months ago | reply

      I’m currently pulling together the Food & Drink section of the Ghost Signs archive and would love to include this sign. Please add to the ghostsigns pool if you’d like to help establish the archive and support the History of Advertising Trust charity.

      Thanks,
      Sam

    9. TinTrunk 49 months ago | reply

      I got very confused ghostsigns! I thought it was already in the pool, but I've checked and it was in the 'Ghost Signs' group, and not the 'ghostsigns' one. I shall add it now.

    10. Ghostsigns 46 months ago | reply

      Thank you for adding this picture to the ghostsigns group. I hope you will continue your support by returning this signed form to the History of Advertising Trust (HAT). More information can be found here.

      If you’re generally interested in how far the project has come then have a little look at these updates:

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      Thanks again for your support,
      Sam

    11. TinTrunk 46 months ago | reply

      I'll check that out ghostsigns.

      Also, I think you might have invited another photograph of mine that got lost down my 'recent activity' list during a busy period. If you can remind me of it, I will happily add it too.

    12. Kasper Veste 38 months ago | reply

      Blimey, that takes me back! Is that round Caldmore way? As a kid in the 50s Mom regularly took me to her mother's, and the bus passed this sign. There was a little row of shops set back from the line of the houses (and the sign was on the side of the last house on the right??) Can't find my way round the map, or Google maps now with all the new buildings. Must ask her if she knows it's still there. We moved to the area (slightly posher bit!) in '69. I used to joke to my hippy mates that, while I never achieved nirvana, I lived in Caldmore for many years. (It's pronounced karma, believe it or not: geddit?!)

    13. TinTrunk 38 months ago | reply

      Thanks for your comment, Kasper Veste. I'm not familiar with Walsall at all - this picture was taken on my only visit there! - but I've tried to place this picture on a map as best I can.

      If you look under 'Additional Information' up on the right of this page, and click on the small blue 'map' link you can check it out.

      Great joke btw!

    14. Kasper Veste 38 months ago | reply

      I spotted it on the map when I was locating a few snaps of the Arboretum (worth a visit I you ever go back, btw), and then forgot to check back!

      Dr Johnson was a regular visitor to Walsall, as it was the nearest place to Lichfield he could catch the coach to London. As he might have said, the only good thing to come out of there is the A5!

    15. pigsonthewinguk 15 months ago | reply

      I'd like to use this picture on Wikipedia; would you be willing to kindly change the licence, as described at: pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensing-images-what-how/ please?

    16. TinTrunk 14 months ago | reply

      Certainly! Could you post a link to the article it will be used in, when you've done it?

    17. pigsonthewinguk 14 months ago | reply

      Thank you; I will do, once I've written it!

    18. pigsonthewinguk 14 months ago | reply

      Here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Barber

      I plan to expand it in due course.

      Thank you again.

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