tarboat's photos with the keyword: mosaic

Memories of the grocer in a Chesterfield shop doorway.

The town gasworks at Hayle was built in 1888 and the last relic is the former showrooms which still proudly advertises its former ownership in a mosaic over the door.

Borough coat of arms on the tower on the front of Dukinfield Town Hall.

The doorway mosaic at the Alexandra Hotel in Hull has seen a lot of wear and tear but continues to remind customers of where they are.

Borough coat of arms on a mosaic in the entrance to Dukinfield Town Hall.

Doorway mosaic at the Puss in Boots pub in Macclesfield.

John Bygrave. Ltd. Fish Dock Road, Grimsby. The business was boot and shoe manufacture and sales, with particular emphasis on seaboots. The shop premises seem to have been built in 1906-07 and are now occupied by a workwear business that has been there since 1926.

This mosaic was rescued from the entrance to the offices of Dennis Ruabon Tiles Ltd., and later Dennis Ruabon Limited, on High St, Ruabon. Seen at the Terracottapolis exhibition in Wrexham.

Pious thoughts above the door to a former bank on East Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. Streetview shows that it is now empty and boarded.

An entrance to the Grade II listed Coleridge Chambers, 175-177 Corporation St, Birmingham. The building appears to have been constructed between 1887 and 1904.

Mosaic entrance step at a former shoe shop in Maryport. The 'Easiephit' brand of footwear was manufactured and sold by James Greenlees & Sons of Paisley. In March 1919 a new company was floated - Greenlees & Sons ('Easiephit' Footwear Ltd.), under the chairmanship of Harry Dunsmore Greenlees, one of James’s younger sons. By 1935, when 12 shops were bought from R. & J. Dick, there were 260 'Easiephit' shops. It had become one of the principal national shoe chains of the day. In February 1957 a bid from Great Universal Stores (GUS) was accepted. There were 380 'Easiephit' branches in the UK in 1973, probably representing the peak of the enterprise. The brand seems to have disappeared in the later 1980s.

Doorstep mosaic in Caernarfon. This jewellers in Pool Street is still trading under the same name.

The Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Company's head office in Inverness was built in 1893 to the design of architects Ross and Macbeth. Three years later a set of mosaics showing the activities of the company were added to the gables. The building has been empty for some time and the mosaics had deteriorated badly by 2018. Since I took this photo they have been restored and the building is being converted for further use. It is listed Grade B.

Mosaic in the doorway to a former shop of the Buttercup Dairy Company Ltd at Innerleithen. At its peak the company had over 400 shops across Scotland.

Mosaic in the entrance to a former butcher's shop at Hayle, Cornwall.

I spotted this mosaic in the entrance to the former Crown Hotel in Hawick. It was partly obscured by the two inward opening doors and the only way to capture the whole of the lettering was to close the doors to the street and use flash.

Mosaic in the doorway to a former shop of the Buttercup Dairy Company Ltd which at its peak had over 400 shops across Scotland.

Mosaic step on Clayton St West, Newcastle-on-Tyne.