This is a Home and Colonial faded sign with a darker Shelter sign below it, on Dartmouth Road, just a few yards up the hill from Forest Hill train station.
Above the H & C, ...NIAL is all that's still clearly visible. Below the H & C are the words ''VALUE, ECONOMY, and QUALITY. As usual, I was on my bike, I was pleased to find a bicycle reference on the Home and Colonial Wikipedia entry. John Betjeman's poem Myfanwy contains these lines
Smooth down the Avenue glitters the bicycle,
Black-stockinged legs under navy blue serge,
Home and Colonial, Star, International,
Balancing bicycle leant on the verge.
I missed the black stockings though.
There are a few more faded signs around that part of Dartmouth Road.
The middle one is pretty well faded, but by tweaking the image in Paint.NET (I love free software!) I came up with something a bit more legible.
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Hi, Sorry, I couldn't find an email for you. Hope you don't mind my leaving a comment here. Just wanted to invite you to our free Local London online event - http://lno-unconference2010.eventbrite.com/.
We have 80 people booked already including folks like SE1, Brockley Central. Londonist & The Guardian.
Hi Hugh, You're right, there was no email for me on the blog - I thought I'd set it up but apparently not. Anyhow, it's now rectified.
And I'm already booked for the ''unconference'' via Crossfields.blogspot.com
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