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You can't go anywhere these days without being bombarded with advertising panels, hoardings, and lit up signs trying to sell you something. Bright, garish, in your face...with slogans you'd rather not remember.....certainly not a memorable feature of our sky line. But around the country there are some remnants of what many call the golden age of advertising, that many aficionados treasure ... And they're called ghost signs. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester's Bridget Blair is a recent convert, and has been out ghost sign hunting on the streets of Leicester with another avid devotee - Colin Hyde from the East Midlands Oral History Archive at the University of Leicester:
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