Alice Rawsthorn’s series of pictures of more than century-spanning ghost signs, posted on Instagram this week, prompts me to unearth a more contemporary and prosaic selection of my own. Unlike most of Rawsthorn’s, these are too recent to have accrued any antique charm and are not destined to haunt for long : less ghosts than zombies, awaiting erasure by sandblaster, or staggering towards final resting places in builders’ skips.
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