Tuesday 26 January 2010

Jay Bros, Ealing

Here is a medium-size but pretty attractive and nicely preserved sign. The light blue shading makes the grey letters of the name come out nicely, while the inclined part of 'Bros' adds some dynamics to it. Below, even if the gold shading has faded a bit and almost mixes with the yellow-ish background, it still brings the black letters out efficiently.

Jay Bros
Tailors

Since there is no address, we can assume they were based in the very building this sign was painted on.

This is yet another example of a sign painted on top of an earlier one. It this case it advertized
G Black
Specialist in
Costumes
...
Maybe the predecessor of the Jay brothers at this address.

Location: Uxbridge Road / Picture taken on: 19/07/2008

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