Photo feature - a fantastic collection of graffiti from 1980s London

[editor]

Stunning collection here: Guy Fawkes Is Innocent - Graffiti In 1980s London - Flashbak

 

[SheilaNaGig]

So from the time of Æthelred the Unready and the Vikings?!

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I know I’m far from alone in this:


I worried a great deal, when I was a child, about poor Bill Stickers, news of whose imminent prosecution was plastered all over the place.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I worried a great deal, when I was a child, about poor Bill Stickers, news of whose imminent prosecution was plastered all over the place.

seen somewhere in the chelsea sort of patch, a few years ago

 

[Puddy_Tat]

wonder if there are any 'g davis is innocent' still visible in london, and whether they should have some sort of preservation order put on them?

 

[Steel Icarus]

wonder if there are any 'g davis is innocent' still visible in london, and whether they should have some sort of preservation order put on them?

G. Davis is in one of the pics in the collection.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

G. Davis is in one of the pics in the collection.

yes, that's why i wondered if there were any left

 

[Steel Icarus]

Hissing Sid, also innocent

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the internet says there's one in salmon lane, limehouse - street view from september 2020 shows it's just about still there

 

[ska invita]

Stunning collection here: Guy Fawkes Is Innocent - Graffiti In 1980s London - Flashbak

Photographer and writer of that must be this Peter Marshall
Author of

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, this volume is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject.

www.pmpress.org

Peter Marshall | A bold and original thinker

www.petermarshall.net

Good man

 

[RoyReed]

I was photographing some of the same stuff at about the same time - I'm surprised I never bumped into him.

The Rasta squats around St Agnes Place (behind Kennington Park)


Love I by Roy Reed, on Flickr


Hell Is Burning by Roy Reed, on Flickr

Free G Davies graffiti from the 1970s


Free G Davies Now! by Roy Reed, on Flickr


Free G Davies Now! by Roy Reed, on Flickr

Lots more '70s and '80s graffiti in my album on Flickr: 1970s & '80s Graffiti