A ghost sign from Stockport

It is another of those ghost signs and for a while it defied my attempts to discover its history.

It is on the corner of Park Street where it meets Market Street in Stockport.

The firm was Emersons who promised that “MORNING ORDERS IN 8 HOURS PROMPTLY EXECUTED” and offered everything from suits, overcoats to trousers and much more.

But now I know something more about it from a 1911 photograph but that as they say is for later in the week.

Picture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson