The latest issue of Spaces, the Hackney Society’s newsletter, includes a short piece I wrote about two ghost shop signs recently uncovered and saved on Stoke Newington Church Street. These old signs sometimes appear when modern fascias are removed, giving a glimpse of long-gone businesses that have been preserved in an old, hand-painted sign.

Alongside the newsletter item, I recently gave a twenty-five-minute talk dedicated to Stoke Newington’s ghost shop signs, as part of the 26th Stoke Newington History Talks event on October 30th. The talk is available in full online.