Comments on: Back to the wall: Bile Beans, again

By: David Poole

David Poole — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:27:22 +0000

Post WW2, in Lord Mayors Walk, to the south of Groves Lane junction, were no.20 Mrs Blakeston (Wardrobe dealer), no.18 Mrs Air (grocer) then three prefabs 16,14,12. The businesses were still there in 1974, so the advert would not have been visible until they were demolished ?

By: David William Huggins

David William Huggins — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:13:26 +0000

With regards to these adds painted on brickwork gable ends i well remember the one where i worked-if you stood on Ouse Bridge and looked over to where the Viking hotel used to be there was an add for Spratts Bonio in the form of a terrier type dog it was on the wall of Johnson Dodds in North St and was there untill its demolition in the late 60s or early 70s not sure

By: Noel Bailey

Noel Bailey — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:31:28 +0000

I was born in 1946 in one of the 3 prefabs that were built after the war on the spare land behind St Maurice’s church I lived there till 1956/7 and the Bile Bean sign was not there or should I say not visible then . I used to watch the me pasting the advertising signs on the big board that was there like the Guinness one with the Toucan on it etc . I believe that the Bile Bean sign must have been found underneath that board in a state of bad repair sometime in the 1960s and originally dates from the 1940s .