S3: Bringing soul back to our High Streets, with Ash Bishop, founder of The Brilliant Signs Company

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Holly explores the rich heritage and history of signwriting with Ash Bishop - founder of The Brilliant Signs Company.

Ash started out in the Army at Sandhurst, until he decided that it was time to walk in his great-grandfather’s footsteps and followed the family trade of sign-writing.

He decided to resurrect one of his most admired sign businesses, ‘The Brilliant Signs Company’ which was originally founded 1888, but fell into disrepair. Ash ‘reclaimed’ it in 1999, where he learned and refined his craft, creating the most beautiful glass signs and sign-painting around the UK, and across the world.

In this conversation, Holly and Ash discuss his unusual journey, what it was like starting out in an industry which was almost killed off due to technology, as well as his mission to ‘restore the high street through his beautiful craft - injecting that much-needed soul back onto our streets, and in turn, bringing a community together.

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0:00.0	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration.
0:06.0	Founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses.
0:13.7	I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy, fulfilled life,
0:20.3	and my dream is to help everyone start theirs.
0:24.0	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement,
0:29.0	and in my view, the greatest way to do this is by sharing stories.
0:33.6	So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses,
0:37.0	acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me
0:41.8	and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor Nat West
0:46.3	who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of
0:51.6	inspiration. are my Conversations of Inspiration.
0:53.0	Bower head and let your islands close on down there.
0:57.0	This week I'm lucky enough on Conversations of Inspiration to be speaking to Ash Bishop,
1:02.0	founder of the Brilliant Signs Company.
1:05.0	I met Ash a few years ago when I asked him to create our shop signs at Holly and Co.
1:10.0	It was such a meeting of hearts, minds and souls.
1:14.8	Ash started out in the army at Sandhurst until he decided that it was time to walk in his great
1:20.6	grandfather's footsteps and followed the family tradition of sign writing.
1:26.0	He decided to resurrect one of the most admired sign businesses,
1:30.0	the Brilliant Signs Company, which was originally founded in 1888, but fell into disrepair.
1:36.7	Asra claimed it in 1999, where he learned and refined his craft, creating the most beautiful glass signs and sign paintings around the UK and across the world.
1:48.0	We had the most wonderful conversation talking about his unusual journey what it was like
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