@euanwithersby.bsky.social
Historian of US Army and Army Air Forces in Merseyside and Lancashire in WW2, spotter of wartime ghost signs and model maker.
Two great sort of #ghostsigns! Both on Otterspool Prom #Liverpool. One of the few remaining classic North West Water logos, such a great design! Also classic British Telecom 1980s era logo on an inspection hatch cover. Rich source of ghost signs on the prom!
07.04.2025 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always nice to have your deduction confirmed. Nice one!
16.03.2025 21:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ste brings to life a motorway junction I know very well. Never looked at in this way though!
12.03.2025 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great memories of Young Farmers dances at Salmesbury village hall back in the day. A village of many talents!
12.03.2025 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Union Bridge over the former St Helens Railway (formerly St Helens and Runcorn Gap) near the Dream installation. The bridge in the background is the M62 motorway bridge I’m usually driving over. I don’t know why it took me so long to visit another fabulous disused railway.
28.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Air Raid Shelter “S” for “Shelter” signage “For 250 Persons” on the Norway Place wall of the Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Frederick in the Commercial Road, Limehouse.
Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Frederick, Commercial Road, Limehouse.
Went for a walk around Limehouse in the East End today and came across this “S” “Shelter for 250 Persons” on the wall of the Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Frederick in Commercial Road.
21.02.2025 18:38 — 👍 41 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Great thread from Chris both about British defences and how combining skills helps unlock things that we might otherwise miss.
16.02.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great combination of skills in concrete and genealogy! It’s interesting to see what things you know look like from a different perspective
16.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Very nicely preserved #ghostsign revealed on the front of R&H Fine Wines on Allerton Road #Liverpool @ghostsigns.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
11.02.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great, will do! I’ll be running past it first weekend in March, but won’t have time to stop it being the St Helens 10k and all 😉
09.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visiting the world famous glass-making heritage of #StHelens at the World of Glass. Fantastic to see so much industrial archaeology in a local museum! Great glass blowing demonstration too @stelingard.bsky.social
08.02.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An old upright metal girder dotted with rivet heads, cut off at around head height. Metal railings extend out from each side.
The remains of one of the many steel (or iron?) arched supports of the former #liverpool overhead #railway at Wapping Basin.
02.02.2025 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great spot Roy! I’d say from the second photo in particular that the wear pattern of the paint is consistent with wartime signs. Good confirmation if there is the remains of a bracket underneath.
01.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#usaaf Air Service Command distinctive unit insignia (DUI), a kind gift from my good friend Carl. Pretty sure it’s #ww2, looks like it was originally pin backed and converted to clutch at some point. If anyone knows the difference between this and the 4-blade version, I’m all ears!
20.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cracking Emergency Water Supply spot in #Chester by Ste 👇
04.01.2025 19:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a cracking spot Ste! Chester has a wealth of ghost signs, some of them now sadly gone including the EWS on the walk up from the station.
04.01.2025 19:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always thought it had the air of a cinema crossed with a grand department store. Nice to know what it was!
28.12.2024 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
