Rightpower Ltd

Rightpower Ltd, Trafalgar Lane, Brighton, East Sussex, 2004 • Note tiny, beautifully lettered instruction to slide the door. By 2015 the windows were still the same, but the painted signs had gone.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/06/28
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2004, Bristol, East Sussex, Shopfront Elegy

blue-and-white, electrical, extinct, trad signpainting, works

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