On a six or more miles walk, through the woods to Banstead and back, my son and I picked up some odd items.
At Café Chai my abruptness re how long we had waited to have our order for coffees to be taken narked the waitress who had just started her shift. Merry Christmas!
We noticed an old shop sign in Belmont, near the the California pub, but I’ve been unable to find out anything about it.
ChatGPT couldn’t locate it but came up with this mildly interesting observation:
The hand-lettered sign, cream/yellowed background, and serif/swash lettering strongly suggest mid-20th century, roughly:
- 1930s–1960s (possibly lingering later if never updated).
The heavy weathering and paint ghosts imply it closed a long time ago and the sign was simply painted over rather than removed — very typical of small high-street shops.
things change 
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