Glass advertising signs for English pubs

DAVE SMITH · Post by **DAVE SMITH** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:57 pm

I was invited round a friends house a few days back to see his collection of advertising signs. Tim Porosa is a designer and estimater for a sign company in Exeter , Devon .Tim once ran his own sign company making signs for all sorts of businesses . Alot of his work was with pub chains and Freehouse owned pubs which he worked on covering the UK .The glass signs like the Bass Ales and the Worthington glass panels once were displayed outside on the front wall entrances of these pubs. It was at one time a very traditional thing to see these signs on the wall of an English pub , so many of these glass signs were broken and taken down and basically skipped back in the 80's. The household stores sign was one of three glass signs saved by Tim which when he found them were just hanging on an old closed down shop in Liverpool .The sign is wood grained and has double shaded and acid gold embossed letters. Again I thought I would share them with you here.
Dave

joe cieslowski · Post by **joe cieslowski** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:42 pm

Thanks for showing those Dave.

The Household Stores piece just blows me away......can't believe I'm not looking at a raised letter.

Joe,

Doug Bernhardt · Post by **Doug Bernhardt** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:51 pm

Dave....those are amazing in quality. The designs are SO right for the time. It's worth mentioning that "skipped" means tossed in a trash barrel. Such a shame and so much of that still goes on. To think they almost tore down the "Princess Louise" back in the 60's as it was so out of date and the brewer needed new offices. The Princess Louise being the same place you mentioned under going serious refurbishing/ restoration recently. Me thinks when "you have so much of it" it becomes easy to ignore it's value!!

DAVE SMITH · Post by **DAVE SMITH** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:45 pm

Doug I will be in London next week , I will try and get some Photos of the refurb at the Princess Louise.
Dave

Larry White · Post by **Larry White** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:19 pm

Hey Dave-
Looks like a couple of these are up on Ebay. Are these the same type of sign as the pictures you posted? It will be interesting to see what they fetch.
-WB

Worthington in Bottle

Bass in Bottle

DAVE SMITH · Post by **DAVE SMITH** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:37 am

Exactly the same Larry. I forgot to mention they are slate on the back as said on the Ebay listing.
Dave