Puckle Lane, Moonee Ponds, Victoria 3039, Australia.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
No parking, thank you
No Junk Mail 74
Noss’s Patent
Welcome to Puffing Billy, this way
Parcels & Telegraph
Post Office Receiving Pillar
Cables
Glads $10
Contact details have changed
Survey mark
Please ring
Closed
A new context
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
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.