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Memorable graffiti round London from over the years

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    edited February 2018
    CAFC

    From OFAH
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Some of it is witty and some artistic but 99% is shite.
    Have a thought for those out in all weathers trying to get it off.
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    edited February 2018
    I grew up walking to school in the 70s over a railway bridge that had

    'Spurs rule, do they f*ck, all they do is bum and suck'

    I always thought it scanned well and still say it in my head when I pass the spot today.
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    I remember seeing something in the Deptford area years ago, I think it was "I spit on your 47 vegetables". What is that supposed to mean?
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Not London, but this was done on the side of a carriage from the heritage railway near my old house in Kidderminster.

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  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    SuedeAdidas said:

    I remember “Be Cool But Care” along a local railway line somewhere?!? I’m guessing maybe between Kidbrooke and Blackheath?

    Definitely outside Blackheath station on the way to Lewisham.

    It was accompanied a little down the track by "LONG MAY THE SUN SHINE UPON YOU". Both very 60s.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    In a similar vein, I remember something at school (Eltham Green) in the 60s....

    If I were the sun
    And I saw the things that people had done
    I would eclipse myself
    For ever

    Thought that was pretty cool too, but can't recall exactly where it was though.
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Two I always liked from Southampton - someone had graffitid THE PIRATE BAY over a closed down blockbuster, and someone else on the side of a fish and chip shop in massive letters is CHIPS
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    I seem to remember the Dire Straits love over gold album title was taken from a Deptford graffiti/mural, a couple of them grew up in the area allegedly.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    This little gem was done in Thamesmead a couple of years ago , it was only there a few days then the council painted it over .
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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
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  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    Valiantphil said:

    On the foot tunnel in Floyd Road, right opposite the club shop:
    "Langton must die"

    It was there for years, but I never met anyone who knew the story behind it.

    The person who this is about has been going to Charlton for years and is still about.

    Will be talking with him in the next few days ,i know the story behind it but will get his okay first before saying anything.

    Seen a great photo of him standing beside it .
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Davo55 said:

    SuedeAdidas said:

    I remember “Be Cool But Care” along a local railway line somewhere?!? I’m guessing maybe between Kidbrooke and Blackheath?

    Definitely outside Blackheath station on the way to Lewisham.

    It was accompanied a little down the track by "LONG MAY THE SUN SHINE UPON YOU". Both very 60s.
    I remember them too,they were there for years.
    Think it was actually worded "May the long time sun shine upon you"
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    edited February 2018
    DA9 Mark kofler was Jools Hollands lodger when he lived in Deptford and they did a spontaneous gig at my local when i lived there we called the boozer "the mad house" was next to the power station---so Dire Straights were defo in Deptford around 1979
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Don’t like graffiti.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    Give peas a chance.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Remember one as a kid in Lewisham on the railway bridge “Sidney is a Puff”, said a lot for the schooling system in Lewisham in the 70’s
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,844
    HantsAddick said:

    My favourite was when the "Free Oz" on the side of a pub in Plumstead was turned into Free Booze with an arrow pointing to the front.

    I was innocent, my lawyer fucked me.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Lordflashheart said:

    It even has websites dedicated to it - genius

    @bdl - whats this about your gusset?
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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Secret walls

    In the nomadic garden just off Bethnal green rd best place for London graffiti
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 934
    rananegra said:

    I remember in the early 80s there was what would now be called a viral marketing campaign by the band "Case" who painted their name all over the place - it was on one of the bridges next to the Blackwall Tunnel. I used to have their record it was a cracker.

    And googling it found some more info about them
    http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/case-croydon-oi-and-oldest-graffiti-in.html

    Case are still gigging oçcasionally.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Solidgone said:

    Give peas a chance.

    It’s still there, read my post further up
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Goonerhater said:

    DA9 Mark kofler was Jools Hollands lodger when he lived in Deptford and they did a spontaneous gig at my local when i lived there we called the boozer "the mad house" was next to the power station---so Dire Straights were defo in Deptford around 1979

    transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/dire-straits-in-deptford.html?m=1
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    Not sure if the wayward dart, a good 20 ft up, is still at Barnhurst station, but if so should definitely be listed as some kind of memorial to bad dart players everywhere.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Used to be a road sign about ten feet up outside what is now Lewisham nick and someone had written on it “go go gadget arms”
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    stonemuse said:

    Goonerhater said:

    DA9 Mark kofler was Jools Hollands lodger when he lived in Deptford and they did a spontaneous gig at my local when i lived there we called the boozer "the mad house" was next to the power station---so Dire Straights were defo in Deptford around 1979

    transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/dire-straits-in-deptford.html?m=1
    An old friend of mine had them play at his wedding reception around that time.
  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 580
    There is a great one on the M25 as you go clockwise towards Watford.

    "GIVE PEAS A CHANCE"
  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 580
    At the Student's Union in Plymouth Uni in the early 2000's someone had written:

    "As I sat here broken hearted,
    I tried to shit but only farted!"
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
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