Famous for, perhaps, only one thing: being the
birthplace of one M.
Thatcher, Grantham has an enigmatic vertical strip of lettering. It
looks very much as if the building to the right of the image was built
over an existing painted tradesman's sign. The sign itself certainly
carries at least two generations of lettering, probably from the same
company(?). [Photograph courtesy: Richard
Attenborrow]
The darker image to the left is closer to Richard
Attenborrow's
original photograph with an enhancement to the right. The upper strip
of white which runs behind the broken down-pipe may have carried the
company name in bold capitals. We can make out three variants of the
word 'Builder', plus another service provided by this company:
'BUILDE
BUI--
GLAZI(er?)
---RO(?)
BUI--'
[Photograph courtesy: Richard
Attenborrow]
'CAFE Upstairs'
2012. Here's a nice piece of painted brickwork; we
particularly approve of the trompe
l'oeil screw head at the top. It's from the old Co-op in Grantham, which is
now closed and has been there since at least the fifties, we're told.
Thanks to Richard Attenborrow for the image.
[Photograph courtesy: Richard
Attenborrow]
[Photograph courtesy: Richard
Attenborrow]