Store

This is one of those ghost signs that's been bugging me for ages, mainly because when I see it usually just a fleeting glimpse as I  travel past by rail or road. Today I was on foot as 10yo and I walked the Leeds-Liverpool Canal between East Riddlesden and Dowley Gap, and I found myself with the perfect vantage point, underneath the Damart Mill, to explore it at my leisure.

Even with a good view and favourable lighting, it is still an obscure sign and difficult to decode. After some playing around with contrast, brightness and grey scale I think I've made out most of it: MIDLAND RAILWAYS ... DRY GOODS & GRAIN STORE.  The missing word(s) in the middle might be SUGAR.

A little further down the canal, we spotted another ghost sign but this one is even more obscure, with only the word WELDING surviving (see extra photo).