Comments on: Custom Signs – The Power of Attraction http://cloversignsblog.com/2008/04/custom-signs-the-power-of-attraction/ Where Tradition and Technology Meet Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elaine Saunders http://cloversignsblog.com/2008/04/custom-signs-the-power-of-attraction/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Elaine Saunders Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:11:29 +0000 http://cloversignsblog.com/2008/04/custom-signs-the-power-of-attraction/#comment-899 Few of us realise that pub signs as advertising have been around for almost 2000 years. The Romans brought the first pub sign to Britain in AD43 - a bunch of evergreens hung outside a tavern. We still have pubs called the Hollybush. Thereafter, pub signs were used to advertise to the largely illiterate population. Fighting Cocks advertised the sport on offer inside whilst Coach & Horses told travellers that the inn was a convenient place to stop. Pubs signs commemorate famous battles, people in history and the odd scandal and, if you know how to interpret them, they tell a world of stories. It's great these ancient trades are being kept alive and reproduced so beautifully. Elaine Saunders Author: A Book About Pub Names www.completetext.com Few of us realise that pub signs as advertising have been around for almost 2000 years. The Romans brought the first pub sign to Britain in AD43 – a bunch of evergreens hung outside a tavern. We still have pubs called the Hollybush.

Thereafter, pub signs were used to advertise to the largely illiterate population. Fighting Cocks advertised the sport on offer inside whilst Coach & Horses told travellers that the inn was a convenient place to stop.

Pubs signs commemorate famous battles, people in history and the odd scandal and, if you know how to interpret them, they tell a world of stories.

It’s great these ancient trades are being kept alive and reproduced so beautifully.

Elaine Saunders
Author: A Book About Pub Names
http://www.completetext.com

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