Whilst sitting on the M25, from M1 to Junc 11 today, doing 10- 30 mph, when I was lucky, I went under several bridges with graffitti on it
Theres one with "Pixie ..........???." on it, that seems to have been there for ages.
Locally to me, in West Byfleet, there is still a " refuse cruise" that has been on a bridge wall that has been present for at least 30 years, though someone has oversrpayed it recently.
What graffiti has been spotted around, let's not include The Long man near Polgate or the horse rider in Dorset, what was the point of them anyway, and let's have a laugh.
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On a railway viaduct just outside Wycombe there was written in white writing "I love the Queen mother!" or something of those words.
That had been around for at least 10 years now.
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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HONDO
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FUME
THE DYAKS ARE WATCHING YOU
etc., etc., etc. until the end of the world.
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Funniest one I have seen was in regional South Australia, there was a large bill board with a police poster on it. It featured a stern looking policeman holding a radar gun and the legend "Speeding, whats your excuse".
This had been duly answered by someone with a spray can underneath, "need a dump" and "on a promise".
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In large letters on the election poster of a good old boy candidate who had been convicted of driving a car without tax or insurance, but was miraculously let off with a caution and not even censured by his party.
"No Tax + No Insurance = No Vote".
I liked it because it turned out that the naughty graffiti artist was a recently retired teacher and genuine pillar-of-the-community, none other than MY DAD - YAY! You're never too young to become an anarchist!!
PS he's getting a couple of cans spray paint for Christmas.
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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In the early 70s graffiti were so prevalent in New York that you couldn't see out of the tube train windows, although the trains often looked quite good from the outside in a louche sort of way. I didn't mind it myself but people who lived there got huffy about it and there was a crackdown and cleanup.
Over here in my part of London there's the enormous canvas of the Great Western Railway and all its surrounding concrete walls. There seems to be a perpetual battle between graffitists and the authorities.
Personally I admire good graffiti. Guerilla art. Damn sight better than guerilla warfare.
Has the human species no sense at all? I fear not.
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GOURANGA ive seen that a couple of times written on railway bridges, swmbo thinks its buddist for "safe journey"
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Not quite, but close.
In the best traditions of unconvincing evidence, here's a wiki link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouranga
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Not quite but close. In the best traditions of unconvincing evidence here's a wiki link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouranga what a coincidence, thats the exact bridge i mean....A47 going into leicester and funnily enough the same spot ( but to the left) were i got caught speeding by a mobile speed camera but i was coming the other way
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the same spot ( but to the left) were i got caught speeding by a mobile speed camera but i was coming the other way
Just remember, Gouranga! :D
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Just remember Gouranga! :D
i always do when i pass that spot !!
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Mary Whitehouse experience:
The use of the phrase 'M Khan is bent'- referring to an actual piece of graffiti on a railway bridge in London, which was written in huge letters on the bridge for over a decade. The joke focused around the fact that thousands of cars pass under the bridge each day, and so whoever M Khan is, his 'bentness' must have been made known to at least half the continent. Therefore, references to M Khan and his 'bentness' were inserted into numerous sketches within the show, in passing.
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Cor blimey, yeah remeber that one, a blast from the past.
anyone able to enlighten me as to who George Davis is/was and what he was meant to have done, and as to whether he actually was innocent
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wotspur
The whole George Davis story is on Wiki - he may have been innocent of that particular charge; but...
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"Benny is Innocent" mainly around the hostels of Aston University in the 70s.....Benny was innocent as it turned out (Miss Diane)
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About 200 miles out of Cape Town, off the main Johannesburg road (N1) is a tiny little town called Prince Albert.
The sign on the N1 warning of the upcoming turnoff is often graffitied.
I'll leave it to your imagination.
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Some of them seem to have official guardians, who tend them, touch up the paintwork, or do complete resprays when needed. These dedicated but anonymous souls sometimes keep up their stwardship over decades. Or do they hand on the task to younger successors when they get too old to hang off bridges, climb rock faces, or inch past live electric rails?
Does Elvis still live on the railway bridge in North Harrow? Certainly Jesus keeps saving the good folk on the Carmarthen to Newcastle Emlyn road.
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From the the 1970s....."FREE WALES"...to which was added "with every packet of cornflakes". Apparently there was also a Free Scotland version on the A96 north of Aberdeen but never saw it.
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I saw the following on the back of a grubby white transit on the A1:
"Remember. A dog is for life not just for Saturday night"
Not very PC but ...........
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One angry farmer's poster on the side of the M6 during the foot and mouth catastrophe...
"Blair fiddles while Cumbria burns."
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"Jesus keeps saving"
He did round here for some years, too. Bizarrely, the same sign advertised cream teas, which may have kept him busy...
There was also the rather prescient question 'Car or Planet?' in very large writing on a bridge during the (long) construction of the A33/M3 extension through Twyford Down. It was very conspicuous, yet no-one bothered to remove it! One up to the tree-huggers, IMO.
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Bill Posters will be prosecuted.
To which was added...
Poor old Bill!
Clk Sec
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When I was working in Cardiff years ago, on a road sign to a forgotten little seaside town: PENARTH - the last resort...
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On the M40 southbound around High Wycombe, on the left is fields that at the top of a slight incline come to a concrete wall with a wood behind which carries the famous question:
"Why do i do this every day?"
and has been there for decades.
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On the M40 southbound around High Wycombe on the left is fields that at the top of a slight incline come to a concrete wall with a wood behind which carries the famous question: "Why do i do this every day?"
Always made me think "I don't", because I only ever drive past it on rare occasions on weekends
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Not graffiti, but I recall a small billboard at first-storey height on a street corner saying:
"A moment's inattention causes accidents"
:-)
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On the way into Wales an the A40 15 years ago, the Welcome to Wales/You are now entering Wales sign had been scrawled with "Brits Out!"
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Amended billboards are a form of graffiti, often obscene, usually funny. Political ones are among the best. I remember election posters for the former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, beautifully amended in felt-tip to show one or two diamonds falling from his lips (in reference to a gift of diamonds he was accused of receiving from Emperor Bokassa of Centrafrique)... this ushered in the Mitterrand government. In communist-era Czechoslovakia a huge poster shouting WITH THE SOVIET UNION FOR ALL ETERNITY! bore the handwritten footnote: 'but not a moment longer'.
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Graffiti in Liverpool a few years back
Jesus Saves -
But Dalglish scores from the rebound.
My favourite on the notice board of a church .
A church is for life not just for Christmas.
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One I used to see in Brighton many years ago.
An anti vivisection slogan neatly sprayed on a wall using a template that initially read, "Boots Torture Beagles" (complete with a proper boots the chemist logo).
But someone painted over the 'B', so that it read, "Boots Torture eagles."
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As seen in Cheltenham some years ago, some anarcho lefty had painted 'Murder the goverment' (sic) on a wall near to the main road into town.
Then some wag had painted underneath '..and then learn to spell it!'.
Classic
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Somewhere on the far side of Salisbury plain is a village called Potterne. Some disaffected local scallywag had amended the name sign so that at night it read Rotterne. It stayed like that for many years and for all I know still is.
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There's a road in Congleton called Rood Hill, for the past 10 or more years this has been amended to read Rod Hull. Every time the council clean it up, it's back again within hours. Done with great care too, looks perfect at anything more than a couple of feet.
A fitting tribute to the great man I think.
I have vague memories as a nipper of passing "It's grim up north" on one of the supports of a bridge over a motorway, possibly M6? Anyone remember that? Would probably be 20 years ago, no idea where exactly.
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Harry Secombe wrote in his autobiography that his wall was graffitied with "HARRY SECOMBE IS A ******", and he had a running battle with the vandals - every time he had the wall cleaned off, they'd return, and write the same thing again.
Eventually they gave up.
Until Harry was knighted... then they returned, and sprayed SIR HARRY etc etc!
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Turl Street in Oxford tends to be less fortunate.
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upon moving to a new area of town i didnt realise it had as bad a reputation as was thought until i pulled into the street i was moving to and on one of the metal grills bolted to one of the windows on one of the empty houses it read " welcome to the bronx" my heart sank......
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In the seventies, on one of the Welsh valleys roads had been sprayed "Jesus Saves". Sometime later in a different style had been added underneath "Greeshield stamps" :-)
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Pentonville Road, Kings Cross end - late 1970s
Free Astrid Proll
Added Below
With every 5 gallons.
For our younger readers Miss Proll was a leading member of the Bader Meinhof terrorist group operating in West Germany. She and her mates were caught and banged up for ever.
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as in Bader Meinhoff Wagen ? (BMW)
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Not sure but I don't think BMW were then making the sort of car that any self respecting terrorist would be seen in.
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They were actually used by Bader Meinhoff hence the monika....I'll try and find something on t'net.
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"Turl Street in Oxford tends to be less fortunate"
A neighbouring village here is called 'Apse Heath'. The sign, which of course is in capitals, regularly has a short tail added to the P. This is equally regularly overpainted by the council, but the effect is simply to make it more noticeable at night, as the 'tippex' isn't reflective...
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Many years ago...two signs alongside a flower stall in High Holborn, London:
(1) You may not like flowers now but they will grow on you in the end
(2) If your mother-in-law is at death's door our flowers will pull her through.
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"Marples must go" (reference to Ernie Marples, 1960's transport minister who intorduced the 70 limit) was said to be visible on an M1 bridge until it went in the Breakspear to Berrygrove widening in 1983.
"No Airport Here" is still clear today on a bridge over the Euston main line in the vicinity of the Wing/Cublington site reccomended by the Roskill Commission in 1972 as London's third airport.
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PS to my previuos post:-
If the 21st birthday wishes to Gina are still visible on the railway overbrige by Bushey station...............................
I reckon she's a Granny by now!!!!
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On a railway bridge over the M57 near Kirkby, Merseyside, someone wrote in large letters "The Pies The Pies". This was there for years. Is it still there, and does anyone know what it means?
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Before I left the UK there was a CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, for you youngsters) logo still visible on the cliffside by the A38 between Rowberrow and Churchill, south of Bristol, that had been there nearly 50 years to my knowledge.
Is it still there, Cheddar?
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