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Parnell Signs
Paul Barry writes that Alan Bond was apprenticed to Parnell Signs at the age of 14, despite having failed their spelling test. Local legend used to have it that Bond painted the Dingo Flour sign, but it is known that he did not, and that it was Les Nash who created it in 1940. It was repainted in 1946 by Fred Parnell, of Parnell Signs.
References and Links
my photo, at 16 Stack Street, 4 December 2008
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 16 February, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/commerce/parnell.html (it was last updated on 11 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.