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detour Nerve · 15 minutes · free

Track down the nearest ghost sign and learn what it sold

“You have to start reading the walls above the shopfronts, which feels aimless, until a half-gone advert for something nobody sells any more surfaces out of the brick.”

The Recipe

  1. Walk one older street looking up, until you find a faded advert painted straight onto a brick wall.
  2. Read whatever letters survive and work out what it was selling.
  3. Look up the name if you can, and find out when it last traded.

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