I CAN very easily remember the first ever ‘ghost sign’ I saw in Edinburgh.
Our family had just moved to Bruntsfield Place and, there, as I looked up to the first-floor level of a tenement block on Barclay Place, was a hand-painted sign for R. Dolan Chimney Sweeper.
I was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in a fairly rural semi-suburban town in Québec. …