Ghosts From the Past
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Ghosts From the Past
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 31 Oct 2013
A car turns briskly off High Street, Acton onto Birkbeck Road. The building on the corner has two obvious ghost adverts intermixed. The Mackie's name at the top belongs to an advert for Mackie's White Horse Whisky which adorned the building in 1908. That particular blended Scotch Whisky first went on sale circa 1890. The more obvious advert is for Price's Old English Lavender Soap. This advert almost certainly predates the Mackie's one - Price started manufacturing soap in 1856. There may even be a third advert trying to show through the Price's one. A fascinating glimpse of history!
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Image Location
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51.506715
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-0.26456