With Mandi not working overtime today, we took Jack for a walk by the canal. We had originally intended to walk to Trent Bridge and let Jack off his lead at the embankment but it started to rain so we made our way through town, doing a little shopping on the way. I had my camera with me as usual and managed to snap a few new ghost signs like this old Shipstones Brewery one that was left behind an abandoned pub.

It wasn’t an especially nice pub to be honest, I’m sure that it was once upon a time though. Something should be done to protect these little reminders of the past, when things were a bit better. Some of these signs I come across are hardly visible and some are in a very poor state. Shipstones is a fondly remembered brewery in Nottingham, although a lot of the nostalgia is a rose-tinted hark back to the days before real ale was a real thing. Most people remember Shipstones for its laxative quality. Despite that, Nottingham Council should be looking around these old pubs and doing something productive to save these signs especially considering their historic value. Then again, Nottingham Council’s attitude towards anything of historic value is to knock it down and pretend it never happened.

Talking of which…

This is all that remains of one of the best ghost signs that Nottingham had. It’s thanks to the careless attitude of the contractors working on the tram line extension that it is now gone. This is what it looked like before.

Just the size of this sign alone should have been enough to preserve it for future generations to wonder what a draper was.

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