Jan7
This is something I must have walked past nearly a hundred times and yet never noticed. It's the sign over a shop in the covered market. It's actually hidden away, high up on the wall. From the alleyway the brown boards below announce the name of the shop, being in a position of precedence no passer-by is going to notice the black and white sign above it.
I happened to be sat in a booth in a cafe across the alleyway when I saw it, a booth I'd never sat in before, but had actually seen, so according to the rules of this thing, I couldn't take a photograph and record it here. I think, if I hadn't sat in the booth, I would never have seen the sign. If it wasn't for my girlfriend sitting in the booth, with her back to the window, so I sat staring at it, and that's how I happened to notice it. With out that set of circumstances I don't think I would have seen this sign over the current shop, that could be described as disused. The actual name of the shop is J. Lindsey and Son, so the black and white sign is disused and out of date. What would be interesting to know is when the black and white sign became disused. Did it only cease to be the main sign when it became and son, or was the decision taken before that. Looking at it in the photograph, the paint appears well touched up, perhaps it's not being left to fade away.
This is one of the things I like about trying to see the world in this way: looking out for things I've not seen before, it seems as though it is getting a little bit easier to recognise them and as they get easier to recognise, I hope they get more interesting.