Myddelton Road Hornsey Old Painted Wall Advert
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Myddelton Road Hornsey Old Painted Wall Advert
Image: © John Kingdon Taken: 5 Sep 2023
With the help of the shopkeeper opposite we decoded the old advert to read, 'J SALMON & SON GROCERS AND HOUSEHOLD STOREKEEPERS' and guessed it must have been from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. He explained that it had until recently been hidden by a modern advertising hoarding, marked out on the wall by a line of white paint. An internet search shows that J Salmon & Son was once a large London based chain of grocery shops.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.587734
Longitude
-0.118563