Puckle Lane, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039, Australia.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
No parking, thank you
No Junk Mail 74
Noss’s Patent
Interior door latch, Puffing Billy carriage, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Welcome to Puffing Billy, this way
Parcels & Telegraph
Near the Puffing Billy ticket office, Belgrave, Victoria 3160, Australia.
Post Office Receiving Pillar
Near the Puffing Billy ticket office, Belgrave, Victoria 3160, Australia.
Cables
Glads $10
Contact details have changed
Survey mark
Please ring
Closed
A new context
A broken cleaning sign in a bark-covered garden, wet day. I guess it would have read something like “Caution, wet surface”. The day I found it, it was the wet surface. The lettering stood out to me.
Press button for attention
No right turn at Maribyrnong Rd
From Moore Street, VIC 3039. This is one of two very similar signs on the same stretch of road: same wording, same lettering, similar weathering. I chose to photograph this one for its squashed-up last line – apparently they figured out the spacing on the other one. The signs are old and beaten but still doing their job.
No no advertising material sign
Gigantic canteloupe
Prohibited
Tan smart
Wight Street, Kensington, VIC 3031
IKEA logo on wet glass
Mind it
Essendon Station, Melbourne, VIC 3040, Australia.
520 Macaulay Road, Kensington, VIC 3031
I think this is a magnificent sign, not only because of its size, but also because of the variety in its lettering and the lovely phrase (or brand name?) “electrine candles”. I can’t decipher all the words though. It appears the white writing has been painted over top of the blue. Here is my best attempt so far:
VELVET SOAP
99/100
PERCENT
PURE
ELECTRINE
CANDLES.
I can’t decipher the words in white paint. Perhaps the second of them is “DRAPER”? There may be more words in blue/purple running along the bottom, but I am not sure.
156 Bellair Street, Kensington, VIC 3031
This building has looked locked and unused for as long as I have noticed it (about a year), but is clean and tidy apart from a few cobwebs.
My interpretation of the wording is:
LICENSED M.M.B.W.
W.g. Pearce PLUMBER
PHONE FF 1666
BELLAIR ST.
KENSINGTON
Estimates given
I love the old phone number format! See below for images of the wider sign and the complete building facing the early morning light. At this time of year, leafy trees shade the sign throughout the day.
Shop online
Made in China
Rafting NZ
Black Water Rafting, Waitomo Caves, New Zealand.
60 Puckle Street, VIC 3039
Golden in the evening light, the ghost sign at 60 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039, Australia. My best interpretation of the lettering is the name FRASERS painted over the words DAIRY PRODUCE & SMALL GOODS, partly obscuring them. The complete sign can be seen in the following image:
Scratch map: Europe
79 Holmes Rd, VIC 3039
Gorgeous in the morning light, the Marchants sign at 79 Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039. The rest of the building is also aged and beautiful, dominating the corner of Holmes Road and Grandview Street, although this is the only painted lettering on it.
Private propert
To open (fire hydrant)
