This old sign above 17 Upper Tooting Road and what it used to say is a querie on Todays notes and queries on Radio Londons Robert Elms show
Could be the letter A from BANK or from the company name PAINE, who were undertakers, nobody knew for sure.
There is Painted writing beneath the A, but can`t make out what it says

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The corner Roseberry ave and Clerkenwell rd.london ec1.
Image from 1979.
Ad Lost to us in the 80s,but the buildings survive.

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This Germolene painted ad on Wandsworth Road is now completely revealed, having been half covered by a billboard for many years.
Germolene was invented by cough mixture tycoon Sir William Henry Veno in 1925.

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For all skin ailments - Germolene. Some words below are difficult to make out, but presumably its their slogan, For all skin ailments the aseptic skin dressing.
Over it, though, was painted To let - C.J. Lytle - BORO - 57 Long Acre. Boro were part of the C J Lytle advertising agency & appear on a number of signs, and were an agency who let the wall sites.
Newington Green,London N16.

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Plastered over sometime in 2023.
It did read -
For All Skin Allments
Germoline
The Antiseptic Skin Dressing.

To Let
Apply C.J.Lytle
Boro
57 Long Acre WC2

Images from 2013 and Dec 2023.

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