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I took these photo's a while back while on holiday in Bath a famous Roman City here in the UK.
Bath is an historic city full of old signs and Architecture ,well worth a visit if your over this way .The reason we are still seeing so many different pieces of reverse glass like this still in place is partly to do with our town councils planning laws and what we can and cannot do (demolish and preservation wise). Signs like this fall into the catorgory (listed buildings) some times owned by our national trust. This sign has been like this for many years.I remember seeing it like this back in the late 1980's. The no 5 glass sign and the W.D Lane Dairy Sign both appear in the book Designage by Arnold Schwartzman they look like they have more paint attached in his photo's
thought I better post them and share there charm before they completely disapear .
Happy New Year again.
Dave
sure wish our country felt the same about such things ..yes in someplaces but usally when to late for most ..
yea looking at this makes ya wonder about history ... puts ya right there with dreams and wonderment
hope some day they can get put back to orginial shape , so it can be enjoyed to it's fullest
I'm not sure Billy, maybe more glass in a frame under there ,seems a bit odd to have it that shape. I suspect it was covered over and they discovered it and only exposed this amount due to where the timber ends. Its probably still in one piece.......Who knows.........
Dave
The odd shape of the sign and the visible left side crack suggests that the ends were somehow damaged to the point that someone added those slats to cover the breakage, while leaving the main advertising to still remain readable. A penny saved?
Pat
Doug Bernhardt wrote:Truly outstanding contribution Smitty. It makes Bath a place I just gotta see!
Bath with or without these nice glass panels is absolutely worth seeing!
The roman bathhouses are probebly the best kept bathhouses from roman times. Still 'operating', that is the hotspring still flushes water through the leaded pipes of the bathing system.
America, Canada and Australia all unfornutaly do not had the "keep the culture" vibe, because they started out a new one by removing all the culture that was already there.
No critcis here, but just to remind us to spread the word to those who are not educated in the "Keepers of the craft" kind of way.
There is still losts to be found in all our countries, so now it is time to actively protect them.
Denver Chapter of the Letterheads