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...or just stuff that stuck in your head. I've got two that always come to mind.
a/ As a youngster coming back from Millwall '73, we pulled into Wapping Station to see painted on a wall, a pair of legs (from the knees down), crossed in the manner of 'irons', jeans cut short with big DM's and the words, West Ham Welcoming Committee scrolled around 'em. Made a lasting impression on an already anxious away fan.
b/ Walking into Moss Side heading for Maine Rd, forearm with a needle sticking out of it drawn on a bridge - written over the top, Heroin, it's what your left arms for. (take on a popular beer commercial at the time).
If I recall correctly, the sign on one edge of the Bracknell estate of Great Hollands used to have the following spray painted on it:
"Twinned with Beirut".
Edit: I think the point being made was that it was supposedly like a war zone. My brother actually lived there at the time and it was fine plus one of my mates lives there currently.
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"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Can't recall exactly what wall, but George Davis is Innocent ok, in Islington, late 70's.
George Davies is innocent was everywhere in the East End, on bridges, walls and anywhere flat enough to paint it, I was told George was out on bail and was caught robbing a bank shortly after, but he had many followers.
George Davies is innocent was everywhere in the East End, on bridges, walls and anywhere flat enough to paint it, I was told George was out on bail and was caught robbing a bank shortly after, but he had many followers.
There was one on a railway bridge outside Lewisham that was there for years.... "Free Nelson Mandela" and someone had put "with every packet of cornflakes".
George Davis a villain back in the 70s, arrested for a robbery, big campaign including digging up cricket pitches & a lot of graffiti protesting his innocence, ‘George Davis is innocent’ was daubed on many a wall in the East London where I lived at the time. Got released , then goes & gets nicked for similar offences & goes to jail. Some wag then goes round & changes the graffiti to ‘ George Davis is in a cell’ Classic
"STAYING UP WITH PIGEON GERRY" appeared in various places in the week leading up to the final game of the season in 1999. (the 6-0 v Palace) Particularly prevalent around Shepherds Bush roundabout and Hammersmith Grove area. I may or may not have had something to do with this. Couldn't possibly say.
Bus stop on the Greenford Road by the old IBM building and seen in several other locations.
It was brilliantly simple: someone had placed an 's' over the 'v' in the aftershave advert featuring Johnny Depp. Thus rendering 'Sauvage' as 'Sausage'.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
Coincidentally... The Who played a benefit gig at the Valley for the Davis family. A bloke around the corner from me, Steve Moyse, was so influenced(!) by the event he spray painted a wall on East Lane, just before North Wembley bridge, 'The Who took Charlto'. That's right, ran out of space. Might still be there today😀
BTW. After Davis got out(yes he was a villain, just stitched up for that particular case), he divorced his wife and married a Chief Inspector's daughter.
West London has great graffiti heritage. From Trellick Tower to the tracksides. Graffiti crews DDS, PFB, CBM,GFS originated from this side of London. It got cleaned up just before the London Olympics but its back on the rise again and personally i think London is better for it.
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