Vintage Outdoor Advertising

These rare black and white images are part of a collection of photographs recently donated to HAT by Alan Bristow. Taken in the early 1930s they show outdoor advertising in Salford, Greater Manchester. 


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This photograph (HAT21/560/10) shows advertising posters on a gable wall at the junction of Leicester Road, Higher Broughton. This type of poster hoarding site, maintained by Manchester Poster Services and typical of the period, helped to make brands such as Guinness, Oxo, Atora and Marmite household names. Each photograph in this collection is numbered in sequence, possibly indicating they were once part of an outdoor advertising agency’s location system or perhaps discarded records from the local authority’s planning department. 



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This photograph (HAT21/560/4) is a lovely example of a hand painted advertising sign in its original condition for Puck Matches, appearing on a gable wall in Eccles New Road, Pendleton. Such magnificently crafted hand painted advertisements are a testament to the skill of the sign painters of the time, whose work would have adorned many buildings in towns and cities all over the country. Sadly not many examples of these still exist and those that do are often faded, clinging to the walls that host them. 

HAT’s Ghostsigns archive is a collaborative effort to record and preserve the last remaining examples of these painted signs. If you have seen a ghostsign in your area you too can contribute to this fantastic project by photographing the sign and sending it to us to be archived along with other examples from all over the UK. 

For more information on getting involved with the Ghostsigns project please click here.



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