All control rests with the municipal and communal authorities, who may decide on the places where advertisements may or may not be posted, and can prevent hoardings being placed on or near ancient monuments or public buildings.
Hoardings are now so restricted by the London Building Acts that new hoardings cannot, except under special conditions, be erected exceeding 12 feet in height, and no existing hoardings can be increased in height so as to exceed that limit.
No hard-and-fast rule is suggested; no particular class of advertisement is proscribed; certainly no general prohibition of posters on temporary hoardings is contemplated.
The hoardings of London were already telling the public that if it wished to get drunk without any of the usual troubles of intoxication it must drink Bios.
Bios evidently required a great deal of advertisement, and Lizzie Eustace had a short-sighted objection to expend what money she had saved on the hoardings of London.
He knew Seven Sachs was a celebrity because he had verily seen him act--and act very well--in his own play, and because his name in letters a foot high had dominated all the hoardings of the Five Towns.
Edward Henry then remembered that the hoardings had been full of Mr. Seven Sachs for some time past.
From the first, Walker appears to have been deeply impressed by the possibilities of the hoardings as a free art gallery.
His note as a decorator of the hoardings is as distinct as it is agreeable.
Nothing so compelling, so irresistible, had ever been posted on the hoardings of the metropolis before.
Mr. Morrow is already an established favourite on the hoardings of London, and justly so in that his performances are of exceptional merit.
The artist rose to the occasion; on the hoardings of London there appeared a woman of austere, even saintly, demeanour, clad in sombre robes, and armed with a spike of the Madonna lily.
Two of them are among the most charming things seen on the Paris hoardings for [Illustration: 0173] many a long day.
As yet the hoardings of London are screaming with the vulgar designs of the advertiser's hack.
Among others who have designed posters which have yet to be seen an the hoardings are Mr. Max Cowper, Mr. A.
Indeed, upon all the hoardings in Greater London appeared various broadsheets side by side.
The hoardings of the Kingdom were plastered with it on the morning of August 8.
France, as in all matters where Art is concerned, triumphantly took the field, and soon had hoardings covered with posters, many of which will take a lasting place in the history of Art.
He forgave Iver thehoardings about the streets; he could not forgive himself the revenge he had taken for them.
It opened out of the upper end of Farringdon Street, and 192A was a shop with the plate-glass front coloured chocolate, on which several of the same bills I had read upon the hoardings had been stuck.
The veryhoardings clamoured strangely at one's senses and curiosities.
I have in my possession a wood-block drawing which represents one of the hoardings of that period, covered with messages of religion.
Upon the hoardings of bare spaces of the East End the texts of Holy Scripture were seen on all sides, interspersed with advertisements of Christian literature, and advertisements of forthcoming meetings.
The hoardingsoffered a great opportunity, and it was Mr. Charrington's idea that these possibilities of advertisement should be made use of.
The hoardingslook a precious sight better covered with pictures than left to dirt and decay.
And then you are going to strip the hoardings of the posters, aren't you?
With that, she rose, and poured out the syrupy brown wine from the green bottle, reserving a remarkably little glass which she had rummaged out of her years' hoardings for me.
I was at the Palace Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, and my name was blazoned in letters a foot long on the buses, and on all the hoardings in London.
Zealous hands were already affixing the raw hides to the projecting wooden hoardings upon the battlements.
Mining was the most effective form of attack, and the approach to the walls was covered by engines throwing great stones against the hoardings of the parapets, and by cross-bowmen who were sheltered behind light mantlets moved on wheels.
Cannon appear to have been first used in sieges as mortars, to destroy hoardingsby throwing round stones and barrels of burning composition.
Machicouli galleries (for vertical defence) were protected either by stone walls built out on corbels, or by strong timber hoardings built in war time, for which the walls were prepared beforehand by recesses left in the masonry.
As a matter of fact, the stranger will be fortunate if he can figure out their destination from the mass of hoardings announcing the respective virtues of Venus Soap and Nestlés' Milk.
The same bill is stuck all over Belfast--in the High Street, on the hoardings facing the heretic meeting houses, everywhere.
I recollected, now, large yellow posters on the hoardings we had passed, with the names of Knype and of Manchester Rovers in letters a foot high and the legend "League match at Knype" over all.
On a dozen hoardings between Hillport and Bursley market-place blazed the red letters of his posters inviting the faithful to vote for Peel, whose family had been identified with the district for a century and a half.
Union Jacks still flew, though the Germans were on the alert everywhere, and the Daily Bulletin of the Defenders, encouraging the people of London to hold out, made its appearance upon hoardings and walls in every quarter.
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