Butter shop sign melts away
Behind the now removed haberdashery sign on a Portobello shop a historic sign for the Danish Buttery Company has been uncovered.
Locals had hope the sign could somehow be preserved but it is apparently rotting in places.
The new owner, who is opening a podiatrist treatment centre, thinks it may be possible to salvage it and that the sign could be mounted it and hung on a wall of a treatment room inside.
This is a B listed building in a Conservation Area.
The Danish Butter Company first appears in the Edinburgh & Leith PO Directory of 1897-98. The shop at 244 Portobello High Street does not appear in the Portobello & Joppa directory until 1901-02.
One local said: "This is part of the history of Portobello High Street and if possible it should be preserved.”
As we related last month, there are these so-called "ghost signs" everywhere in Edinburgh.
Some of the best known are on the building which sits just behind the National Museum of Scotland on Bristo Place.
Often ghost signs are only visible for fleeting moments during building renovations, like the one spotted on a hairdresser shop at the corner of Prospect Bank Road and Restalrig Road. By the time this was shared to Edinburgh Ghost Signs on Facebook, the sign had already been covered over. We have begun a new collection of Ghost Signs using the new app Beams - which describes itself as 'lists made to share'. It is an easy way of listing recommendations or stories such as this.