Ghost signs on Dublin’s walls

Dublin contains hundreds of ‘ghost signs’, preserved on the facades of old shops and factories that are now occupied by food outlets, shoe shops or pubs. What were these businesses, and who were the Elverys, Combridges and Kapps who owned them?





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