Cafe (Garratt Lane)

Cafe, side of 886 Garratt Lane, Tooting, Borough of Wandsworth, London SW17, 2006 • Subtle ghost sign which is still there. Typography suggests nineteen-teens.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/03/17
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2006, Borough of Wandsworth, London, Shopfront Elegy, SW17

eaterie, ghost sign, palimpsest, signage

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