When the majority of the British public were illiterate, pub signs served a functional purpose, not a decorative one Wherever one chooses to travel in Britain, a local boozer is more or less guaranteed. Most commonly, the pub in question will be called The Royal Oak, The Red Lion, The Crown or The White Hart, its sign, swaying on a bracket, a familiar beckoning call to the community and an opportunity for tourists to immerse themselves in quotidian local life.
Pub signs are artworks in their own right, and traditionally they would all have been designed and hand-painted by professional signwriters, such as Andrew Grundon of Signature Signs. Situated in a small, rural village near Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, Andrew’s busy studio, bursting with antique signs of all sizes and…
