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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/see-eerie-century-old-ghost-20899967?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Brilliant stuff. I hope you don't mind but the original stuff you posted has been used in the Birmingham Mail online piece now up? Cheers.

We all do it!

And finally from me tonight ..I wonder if this still exists?

Got to love the internet! (For all its sins).

And there's more from the soon to be lost signs next to the Gothic project.

http://paintedsignsandmosaics.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-sutcliffe-birmingham.html?m=1

I think it might say Retail below colors.

That works. I've looked at the photo now you've told me this and what I thought might be an H is an I to the right of what is the black outline edge of the ghost sign which I mistook for the left upright on an H. Wow 1884. I thought it said paints below and strangely colurs which appears to be...

I'm taking a real punt here but perhaps you could check. The badly damaged advert above the J R Stevens, I reckon the name at the top may be H Sutcliffe. Cheers.

Still a going concern in Tyseley!

They contacted me after seeing my post on the Jewellery Quarter Facebook page. Happy to spread the word! Cheers.

More the merrier! Birmingham Mail using my pics online later, fame at last lol!

Also advertising parraffin (extra r) and petroleum on that sign so the former fits well

Was a new one on me I must admit.

A very satisfying discovery though. Love serendipity like this.

They say you learn something every day….the sign above the Stevens one has a few readable words but COLZA after seeds had me baffled but… Colza oil or colza is a non-drying oil obtained from the seeds of rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus.

My thoughts were that older buildings were set back from the pavement and newer additions were built up to the pavement at a later date. Probably been many changes but I was really surprised as these emerged today.

And all kinds of earthenware below I think.