ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 31-1-2005

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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This week's picture set is about unusual shop notices. They can be funny (not always intentionally), they can be sad, and sometimes they can be downright odd. You see them much more at independent shops and on market stalls than you do in the supermarkets or big chain stores. There's no character to the major multiples, they tend to be just machines for selling, run by accountants and heavily policed by lawyers. You can imagine the fuss if Tesco advertised a sausage called the Baby Jesus or Waitrose put a label on their asparagus saying that it made your wee smell in the morning. The small retailer, by contrast, is like his customers - individual, quirky, fond of a joke and just trying to get by. These pictures come from Brighton, London, Eastbourne and Hay-on-Wye, but you could find similar ones in most towns all around the country. Until all the little shops are closed.

Sale sign at a funky clothes shop in Brighton in January 2005 (image 2587-1)

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