Logo Pops - Retail Archaeology

Old logo, modern times and the shopfronts time forgot. Spotted some retail archaeology? Submissions welcome! Curated by @JosephBegley

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❄️ We have a soft spot for a retro Iceland and this is a fine example in Aldridge, West Midlands

🛒 Who doesn't love a branded lift that takes you directly from a rooftop car park to the shop floor?

📸 via @JosephBegley

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🐔 Now sat over a chicken shop, this sign for the Today newspaper remains above this former newsagents on Alfreton Road, Nottingham

📰 Set up as a full-colour middle-market tabloid in 1986, Today was bought by Rupert Murdoch a year later and closed in 1995

📸 @JosephBegley

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🥶 Although you'll never walk through the plastic curtains into the fridge section again (or drink No Frills cola), other remnants of Kwik Save still survive

🛒 This former car park signage in Grimsby and 'T' trolley park in Stamford, Lincolnshire are both Kwik Save throwbacks

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🛒 From the era before the German invasion of Lidl and Aldi, the Welsh were king of the discount food chain with the ubiquitous Kwik Save

👀 A remarkable relic off the High Street in Byker, Newcastle and with signage in incredibly good nick given its age!

📸 @JosephBegley

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And *yes* HELLO 👋 guess who remembered the password for this account

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🖼️ Spot a forgotten billboard? We'd love to feature them on this page

👀 Any updates on the status of these Consumer Direct ads at Birmingham Airport most welcome too...
https://t.co/RkqGrKfOwK

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Shout-out to these Consumer Direct billboards still living it up in the departures lounge of Birmingham Airport. The service was shut down by the coalition government in 2012.

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We love this story of the 40 year old Otrivine ad still going strong at Charing Cross 👃

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Man finds billboard he created in Charing Cross 40 years after he created it https://t.co/RZNPNZe7Ld

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Man finds billboard he created in Charing Cross 40 years after he created it https://t.co/RZNPNZe7Ld

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👀 A ghostly J Sainsbury appearance in Selly Oak, Birmingham. This former store closed in 2018 and is now earmarked for redevelopment.

📸 @JosephBegley

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👢 Memories of school shoe shopping in Torquay, Devon with the ghost of this Shoefayre signage

👠 The chain had 240 stores when it was offloaded by the Co-op to ShoeZone in 2007, following an unsuccessful rebranding as 'SF'

📸 @Kaine_Sweet

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🌈 Finds can come in the most unexpected places - like this Do It All branded salt bin outside Wickes in Hertford

🛠️ With owners including WHSmith and Boots over the years, Do It All was sold and became part of Focus DIY in 1998

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😍 The Ware branch really is the gift that keeps on giving

📸 @SkillageSteve

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📣 Read all about it! This Lavells signage has reappeared in Warrington as Morrisons trim their rescued McColl's chain

🗞️ Larger Lavells stores were sold to John Menzies in 1987, with remaining branches rebranded Martin by owners Guinness (yes, that Guinness)

📸 @Ste_Jones75

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📰 Some more retro Martins spots, including the ghost of a sign in Ware, Hertfordshire and a 90s special in Great Crosby, Merseyside

📸 @SkillageSteve + @adambrid

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😎 Some retro Boots vibes captured just before this opticians undergoes a refurbishment in Hertford, Hertfordshire

💊 The white lozenge on Boots shopfronts was introduced in the late-80s and 90s

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🛍️ Some late-80s Debenhams 'D' action has appeared outside the branch in Nottingham's Market Square

🏛️ They took over the Griffin & Spalding store in 1944, with the building now Grade II listed

📸 @SteveOliver76

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👀 Picking up a bottle on the way home? The shadow of this Threshers signage has been revealed on Hills Road, Cambridge

🍷 This logo was used until 2002, with a new and final look introduced before the brand and FQR fell into administration in 2009

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🥕 Despite the continued roll out of more modern self service stores, this branch opened in 1958 with traditional counter service and replaced another store nearby

🖼️ More pictures can be found on the @sainsburyarch website
https://t.co/oFh6FigEMZ

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😍 We love this properly vintage J Sainsbury signage that's reappeared after the closure of a Ryman branch in Earls Court, London

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👀 Mini @logopopsblog spot in Nottingham at what was the Index catalogue store on Lister Gate

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👖 Anyone for some new breeks? An example of original 60s Topshop and Topman logos has resurfaced at the former flagship store on Princes Street, Edinburgh

📸 @blucanary / @MarcAYoung