CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Sunday, 7 January 2018

And a ghost of one

This stopped me in my tracks yesterday morning, revealed behind the facsia of an abandoned shop.
I think I've worked out what it once said. Can you make it out?
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5 comments:

  1. Paul (from Waterway Routes)7 January 2018 at 17:03

    I guess it once said "Sheffield & Hallamshire Savings Bank"

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  2. Sarah7 January 2018 at 18:11

    Not enough space for 'and Hallamshire' but I agree about the first and last parts.

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  3. Paul (from Waterway Routes)7 January 2018 at 21:50

    There's definitely something between "Sheffield" and "Savings" so could it be "Sheffield Trustee Savings Bank"?

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  4. Alan Fincher8 January 2018 at 20:57

    I guess you have Googled it, but there certainly was one.....

    http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F168574

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