Photo-a-Day (Monday, 18th June, 2012)
Graffiti
Photo: Thomas Walsh (Canon PowerShot A1200)
That wall appears to be badly in need of pointing!
I remember so many of these tributes to Her Majesy The Queen on many a wall in Wigan.Good to see one again.
Mean Machine
I am an urban artist
painting up the town
creating an impression
designed to make you frown.
Do you hate my slogans
my anti capitalist tirade?
I aim to cause frustration
to annoy the monied brigade.
Life, it isn't fair
I know not to expect too much
and not a single bastard will help me
so I kick them into touch.
You can clean away the graffiti
place cameras on the wall
but one thing that you can't destroy
is my mean and brooding soul.
Like many a wall in Wigan, this one needs demolishing.
I think it WAS demolished years ago. It was down a little street, (Pump Street, I think), off Low Mill Lane in Hindley, which in its turn is just off Maket Street.
Sorry, just realised it says that on the top!
Not been demolished still there! :-)
Walked past there today : why would you want to demolish it Gary? :) why?
Isn't it obvious, Babsie? Its an eyesore and possibly unsafe. Why are so many Wiganers stuck in the past? No wonder the town still stuck with its cloth-cap image...
Gary, like Wigan Council you are only interested in image, realities get swept aside.
It is said that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"; so are eyesores. It all depends on how a person sees it. I really thought it had been demolished, and am so glad it's still there.
Why would anyone want to "praise" this wall/ Not exactly pretty is it ?(doesn`t look very safe either.)
To be fair it is probably stronger than most walls, it looks abit like flemish bond.
More likely use the header brick to tie up the wall considering its age.
Im watched this being painted, if I remember correctly, by a chap called Laurence Whittle who used to live in one of the houses in Pump street. Funny what we'd call graffiti today was seen at the time as a fitting tribute to our new Queen, and I doubt a wall built today and left to its own devices would still be standing 60 years later.