Mademoiselle Couché:
13/365 Ghost signs visible on this lovely old building in Brunswick. Once a corner shop now a much cared for home who’s exterior has been carefully and faithfully retained.
Mademoiselle Couché:
4/365 A fine old wall in Carlton showcasing the English bond bricklaying pattern popular during the Victorian era.
Mademoiselle Couché:
14/365 Clifton House built in 1890 was up until about 15 years ago; a milk bar.
Mademoiselle Couché:
15/366 More ghost signs! What does Sidchrome have to do with the Lygon St Nursery and Landscapes Brunswick? Absolutely nothing.
Mademoiselle Couché:
16/365 I can’t resist this Nestlé Milk Chocolate Ghost sign on Sydney Rd Brunswick.
Mademoiselle Couché:
17/365 Once; in another time, one could definitely buy milk here. With that large red ghost sign visible on each side of the front door.
Mademoiselle Couché:
19/365 Ghost sign from North Carlton spotted on my bike ride. It’s so big it really is hard to miss. The red door adds a bit of stylish drama to the scene.
Mademoiselle Couché:
20/365 ‘Pure Velvet Soap' was the promise for the discerning shopper visiting this local general store on Lygon Street street on the corner of Fenwick.
Mademoiselle Couché:
23/365 Ghost sign for what was once the Union Knitting Mills Pty Ltd, Coburg which occupied this single storey red brick building with a wide rendered parapet, with plain horizontal mouldings.
Mademoiselle Couché:
25/365 Ghost signs on the side if this building now a residential home on Carlton North.
Mademoiselle Couché:
26/365 Ghost sign on the side of this commercial building in Carlton North which once was the home of Perry Springfield Estate Agents.
Mademoiselle Couché:
29/365 Ghost signs of an old Florist shop on Lygon St Brunswick. In the background is an ominous sky.
Mademoiselle Couché:
30/365 Ghost sign showing that this business was once N. POSE & SON. Bushell’s has their tight grip on the advertising with their best selling Bushells Tea (the tea of flavour) and also their Bushells Instant Coffee.
Mademoiselle Couché:
31/365 How’s this for a brilliantly clear and crisp ghost sign which has been (thankfully) restored by the current owner.
Mademoiselle Couché:
32/265 Once; this disused shop in Rathdowne St Carlton was a Drapery where you could purchase all your Hosiery, Toys and Haberdashery needs.
Mademoiselle Couché:
34/365 Aaaah! Fosters. Aaaah this ghost sign advertisement is so old it relates to a time when people actually drank Fosters in a pub in Melbourne or anywhere in Australia frankly.
Mademoiselle Couché:
35/365 For its time; this was a large two story grocery shop on a Brunswick corner.
Mademoiselle Couché:
37/365 Forget the talentless graffiti and concentrate on the old boomerang Foodland ghost sign. You can still see the pressed metal ceiling of awning and the glazed ceramic tiles which in their day would have been a very bold teal colour.
Mademoiselle Couché:
38/365 Once again another old shop; resplendent with its ghost signs intact, has been converted into a private residential home. Very clearly I can see ghost signs advertising Tarax (soft drink) and up higher The Age (newspaper).
Mademoiselle Couché:
43/365 I’m delighted to have spotted a famous Robur Tea ghost sign up high on a wall in Lygon St Brunswick.
Mademoiselle Couché:
44/365 A subtle ghost sign which is still clear enough to tell us this was once the home Superior Tailors.
Mademoiselle Couché:
45/365 I was on my lockdown bike ride today and couldn’t miss this beaut ghost sign. As the sign indicates this was once the home of the local North Carlton BAPTIST CHURCH.
Mademoiselle Couché:
46/365 Great find and great save. Once; someone had the sense to stop before this lovely old ghost sign was totally obliterated. I can report that it is advertising for ETA Peanut Butter; circa early to mid 20th century.
Mademoiselle Couché:
47/365 saw this old ghost sign above a gateway in what was once known as the Metropolitan Meat Market.
Mademoiselle Couché:
49/365 This is an old garage in Brunswick from early 20th century when cars were small enough to drive through the small garage door now covered by ivy. Across the road from the Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.
Mademoiselle Couché:
50/365 Ghost sign on a back alley in Brunswick. It’s quite well known so I know the sign states in two lines: BALFE AND SON PRODUCE, WOOD AND COAL MERCHANT.
Mademoiselle Couché:
51/365 The ghost sign tells us this was once the “Alec Self Service Foodland.” I delighted to have found another boomerang Foodland sign.
Mademoiselle Couché:
52/365 Ghost sign showing F J Wolff Cordage Manufacturing in Albion St Brunswick c. 1900. Today this building is a private residential home.
Mademoiselle Couché:
53/365 At first it seems the ghost sign here is the Herald Sun Sunday but on closer inspection I can see this is a second generation ghost sign and can just make out Dunlop Tyres and other words on each side of the windows.
Mademoiselle Couché:
57/365 BALFE AND SON - PAINT AND VARNISH MERCHANT
