more to come yet...

any ideas if its possible to get a page 2 now al as this ones getting a bit jammed?

cheers

and again

doing it for a thrill, hoping you'll understand

january 2010

i dug this out from the back of our shop to shuv on the wall,

this is the best sign i will ever get my hands on, family history... cant beat it

got my hands on this little one too

Febuary 2010

saw the remnants of some style still surviving

Febuary 2010

i got this ginger to add to my stokes enamel,  also got theses paper ads

Febuary 2010

picked up a few signs

the bus stop looks great ......   on the bus stop

march 2010

i went to have a look a  potential site, and an old allopment where i remember seeing a small alllopment society enamel sign a few years ago. heres the pics...

i gave up on the lotty as the little signs no longer where it was last time i was there

so i went to this place i noticed on the way to the allopments, id driven past it many times before but had not noticed it before as its behind a hedge and is normally covered by the leaves. it was a rite struggle to climb into as the entrance is pilled high with wood,

finally got in and it looked as if it had been untouched and unexplored for quite a while

hello hello!

 a few more,  one with the lable in good condition

...beautifull...

i managed to work my way thru all the wood to climb out the back of the shed and have a look round the edges

lets get a better look

had a lot of wood to move... note the red plastic pillar near the fence

but got there in the end

its a bit rusty but its mine all mine

and i love it

march 2010

i got this beauty that im well happy with as im after any allopment/garden related signs and stuff, an i cant afford suttons lol

 march 2010

went for a wonder round an old deralict farm building and found this... lol

march 2010

went for a wonder around a small village in search for there tip, and saw this telephone enamel still pointing to the phone box

enamels on the right

i also found this beautiful pilbox

march 2010

added this to my lotty stuff collection

march 2010

went out an about and found this old place

old carrage

id unfortunatly been beaten to it by the looks

tiny little 1 pint flagon, so gutted it wernt marked tho, altho old enouth as it has a powell potters mark!

old grain bags,  ...winchcombe

shudington

tewkesbury

and this super retro motor oil

art neuveau and art deco gardening books, one dated 1881, if i remember rightly

march 2010

put some signs up in the shop

April 2010

i done the chelt odeon

(two small enamels still in place above, that wont show for some reason!)

april 2010

got these from the old abandoned garage over the road from us

april 2010

i walked a bit of woodland near a manor in search of its tip,

started finding loads of milks

then eventually found a tip

altho a tad bit late!

i got this oil bottle, i have never heard of this brand before, have you? please help.

SOLVOL

April 2010

went back the next day to finish it off 

found a few more milks on the walk to the tip

it's funny what you can work out about the people by digging the tip,  there was quite a few boot polish tins in there. There was also quite a few metal screw caps for baby food at the one end of the tip but then at the other end these had fazzed out to be replaced by tizers and corona's.... kids got a bit older perhaps?   there was also a lot of gordons gins in there but yet again there was a lot more at the one end, the same end as the corona's so perhaps the kid(s) turn the farther into a alcoholic

this was a funny shape for a tip, i thought it was a old filled in ditch that would run quite a length but it wasn't and was just a weird shaped tiny tip! so coming to terms with the fact that id almost finished it and probably wasn't going to get anything and also the fact that the best bottle i dug was fookin smashed... id lost a bit of motivation  especially as id hit the wet end, but then out of the water i just caught sight of the corner of an enamel i was over the moon to say the least and thanked the tip gods for saving me the best till last

cor its really happnin here... lol