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British commercial and industrial facades, by Vici MacDonald.

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Shopfront Elegy book – out now

SHOPFRONT ELEGY: SAMPLER A themed compendium of vintage UK shop facades By Vici MacDonald / Foreword by Alan Dein • £14.95 from Amazon UK • $19.95 from Amazon USA • 96pp / Full colour […]

Shopfront Elegy book – out now

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A few from earlier…

Alan R Long

Costa's Barbers

The Johnson Engineering Co

Dilnot's Bakers & Confectioners

Phillips & Rimmer Prop. Rimbrail Ltd

The Deptford Cod Father's

Adel Hair Fashions

Belgravia Cigarette Coy

C.E. Pound

Glass Mirrors

Fanny Adams Unisex

Best Cash Butcher

Colt Bookstore

Shoefayre

Brothers Garden

Jellies Walk-In

Tonys Snacks

Dowell's Coals

Johnson & Jones Speaker Repair Specialists

Some dates and places

1981 1983 1988 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Avon Aylesbury Banstead Berkshire Birchington-on-Sea Birmingham Bognor Regis Borough of Barnet Borough of Brent Borough of Camden Borough of Croydon Borough of Ealing Borough of Greenwich Borough of Hackney Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Borough of Haringey Borough of Havering Borough of Hounslow Borough of Islington Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames Borough of Lambeth Borough of Lewisham Borough of Merton Borough of Newham Borough of Southwark Borough of Tower Hamlets Borough of Waltham Forest Borough of Wandsworth Bridgnorth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Caterham Cirencester City of London City of Westminster Cornwall Coulsdon Coventry CR5 Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorking Dorset E1 E2 E3 E5 E8 E9 E10 E15 E16 E17 East Grinstead East Molesey East Sussex East Yorkshire EC1 EC2 Edgware Emsworth Epsom Falmouth Folkestone Frome Glasgow Gloucestershire Gravesend HA8 Hampshire Hastings Herne Bay Hexham Horley Horsham Hull Isle of Wight Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Lowestoft Manchester Margate Merstham Middlesbrough N1 N2 N8 N10 N15 N16 N20 Newcastle Northumberland NW1 NW8 NW10 NW11 Oakham Oswestry Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Powys Reading Redhill RM14 Rochester Rottingdean Rutland Ryde Scotland SE1 SE5 SE6 SE7 SE8 SE10 SE11 SE13 SE15 SE16 SE17 SE18 SE24 Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset Southsea South Shields South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sutton SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW6 SW7 SW8 SW9 SW11 SW16 SW17 SW19 Tadworth Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear W1 W2 W4 W12 Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire WC1 WC2 West Midlands West Molesey West Sussex West Yorkshire Whitstable Wolverhampton Worthing

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Visual themes (a work in progress)

adult alcohol amateur signwriting apparel arch aristocratic name art deco bank bargains black-and-white blinds blue blue-and-white broken sign brown builders merchant butcher chinese christmas classic plastic cleaning clock club cobbler confectioner convenience store courier demolished department store doorstep eaterie electrical engineering entendre established exceptional extinct faith family and friends famous name final closure financial flag foodstuffs footwear furniture generic title ghost sign gold letters graffiti grandeur green greengrocer grimness hair handmade hardware illustration international italian jeweller marble mosaic multicoloured net curtains news nice name optician orange palimpsest pepsi cafe pharmacy pink profil font pub pun random typography recorded media red-and-white script secondhand signage specialist spelling and grammar sponsored sign stall stationery supermarket tiled tobacconist traditional trad signpainting uncovered unknown business vehicles vitrolite wall sign wooden slats works yellow

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