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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 18h

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 18h

Daily Telegraph #ghostsign in Lillie Road, SW6

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 19h

#Ghostsign from today in SW6

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 1d

James Scott Electrical Engineers if I have the address right?! (Edin Evening News Dec 1957)

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 3d

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 3d

In the best traditions of the Post Office, I'm a day late with an #OTD of the opening of the Tower 60 years ago

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 4d

Eye catching glass #ghostsign with a four digit telephone number

Faded 'Keen & Batchelor Distributors Order Office' glass sign in the middle of a green front door

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 4d

Go For Gas advert, 1959

Colourful advert featuring Mr Therm issued by the Gas Council in the Tatler & Bystander via the BNA

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 4d

Alt text should say Mr Therm not Mr Drip 😩

pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 5d

#Ruislip

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 5d

Wednesday wrapper, 1970

St Michael milk chocolate caramel wafer wrapper in gold, white & blue

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like it might have been the Arden Toupe Centre (Staffs Sentinel, 1978)

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 8d

To Berkhamsted this morning for the antique & vintage market..always good to see the Home & Colonial #ghostsign

Faded sign for Home And Colonial Stores Limited

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 9d

My little notebook picked up from a dedicated FoB stand at a recent postcard fair.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 9d

My 1960 GEC Cookery Book is looking a bit tatty now, but love the cover design by Dorrit Dekk

Spiral bound Cookery Book with colourful front cover

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 10d

Modern University Buildings, commemorative stamps designed by Nicholas Jenkins, September 22nd, 1971

Physical Sciences Building, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 3p, Faraday Building, Southampton University, 5p, Engineering Department, Leicester University, 7 1/2p, Hexagon Restaurant, Essex University, 9p

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 10d

Monochrome & instructive..1972 advert for the Blackpool Lewis's store

Advert from the Lancashire Evening Post for the Blackpool Lewis's store with address & 5 digit phone number

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 10d

#Pinner

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 12d

Wednesday wrapper - Nestlés superfine plain chocolate, 1960s

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 12d

For #LincolnshireDay a C20th coastal postcard selection

B&W card of the pier entrance at Skegness by H Coates

Butlin's Holiday Camp at Skegness with pool and fountain posted in 1965

Sapphire card of the boating lake at Chapel St Leonards with caravan park in the distance

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 13d

Some glorious #midcentury adverts pictured here in this postcard image. No photographer named, and 1959 has been hand written on the back. #incidentalbus

The 77b bus photographed against a backdrop of adverts including Fray Bentos, Sunblest, Kellogg's, Kitkat & Crosse & Blackwell.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 13d

A couple of old tins for #NationalCoffeeDay

Lyons Ground Coffee and Allied Suppliers coffee tins

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 16d

Replica of Stephenson's Rocket near the entrance to the British Transport Museum in Clapham. Image taken by my grandmother in 1967. #Railway200

Colour photograph of Rocket with Museum of British Transport signage

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 16d

Pillar To Post Royal Mail First Day Cover #PostBoxSaturday

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 17d

Some kept early 1970s airline ephemera

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