I'm hopeful the owners see the value of keeping the original text, although I'm not confident they will; I wouldn't think twice, it would make for a strikingly original home. But as an example of 1930's shop frontage: black and white with an archetypal deco font, this is signage which needs to be celebrated and saved. It's a bold, confident and 'Modern' sign. There is one additional and crucial reason why these signs need to be saved; they are made from a very early form of coloured perspex...a cutting edge material to utilise during a period when most shop frontages and signs were still being hand painted by sign writers.
A thought has just occurred. The Huntly Heidelberg weekends are taking place in September during the period of vegetable and fruit harvesting. Perhaps Gaulds could re-open just for those two weekends? Another ghost from Huntly's past re-energised and I could possible utilise my own apple trees overproduction to good effect. Buy one, get one free...I'm sure R. Gauld would not have approved.