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[Scubby]

My childhood years were spent in Yorkshire during the 80s and 90s. I remember there used to be a graffiti tag line on (what seemed like) all the motoway and dual carriageway bridges in for miles around. I have been trying to think for ages what it was. After moving to the Channel Islands, I remember reading a story that the culprit had been caught (think it was Sheffield) and he might have even been jailed because of the extensive cleaning costs caused.

Come on TRL's of a certain age. You must remember this - it was everywhere. Please put me out of my misery. If you were around during that era you couldn't have failed to remember seeing them.

Cheers

[terrywebbisgod]

My childhood years were spent in Yorkshire during the 80s and 90s. I remember there used to be a graffiti tag line on (what seemed like) all the motoway and dual carriageway bridges in for miles around. I have been trying to think for ages what it was. After moving to the Channel Islands, I remember reading a story that the culprit had been caught (think it was Sheffield) and he might have even been jailed because of the extensive cleaning costs caused.

Come on TRL's of a certain age. You must remember this - it was everywhere. Please put me out of my misery. If you were around during that era you couldn't have failed to remember seeing them.

Cheers

It was "FISTO"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/graffiti-artists-sentence-brings-no-joy-to-persecutor-1342440.html

[Scubby]

It was "FISTO"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/graffiti-artists-sentence-brings-no-joy-to-persecutor-1342440.html

OMG my whole childhood memories have come flooding back! Cheers mate - great stuff! This has been bugging me for years - you have to put faith in the TRL Helpdesk I remember a few of the scallies at my school trying to copy his infamous patterns.

[Futtocks]

Yorskshire Graffiti website.

[Stevo]

On a related note, I read the other week that "TOX" has (at last) been put away.

I'm ambivalent about graffiti/ street art and whether or not it's all just vandalism, but the "TOX" stuff was/ is just horrible.

[Futtocks]

On a related note, I read the other week that "TOX" has (at last) been put away.

I'm ambivalent about graffiti/ street art and whether or not it's all just vandalism, but the "TOX" stuff was/ is just horrible.

Graffiti's one thing, whether you like it or not, but tagging is the pastime of knobs. 'Tox' just scribbled his crappy little tag anywhere and everywhere.

[paley]

A few bridges over the M1 used to advertise the benefits of magic mushrooms

[Rubber Schnib]

I seem to remember "dreaded piano clubbers" being sprayed on a bridge on the A580. I found that one brilliantly surreal, even when I later found out where it came from.

[JohnM]

wtf is "Gourango"

[marklaspalmas]

wtf is "Gourango"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouranga

Be happy

[JohnM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouranga

Be happy

"having a white or yellowish body"...that's me!!!

[Mumby Magic]

It was "FISTO"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/graffiti-artists-sentence-brings-no-joy-to-persecutor-1342440.html

Ahhh FISTO!

[Griff9of13]

I seem to remember "dreaded piano clubbers" being sprayed on a bridge on the A580. I found that one brilliantly surreal, even when I later found out where it came from.

The most notable one I recall was "The Pies, The Pies" on the green railway bridge over the Switch Island end of the M57. In fact it has even made it into the world of literature, being mentioned in Alexei Sayle's excellent book 'Overtaken'.

[gingerjon]

Viraj Mendis No Deportations

[ShotgunGold]

I have a very faint memory of walking alongside a very wide river on a small muddy pathway and walking under one of those large Motorway bridges made of concrete. Looking up the whole of the underside of the bridge had been spray painted in many different colours. And slap bang in the centre had been sprayed #

"IT'S ALL ABOUT HANGING 1994"

Apparently the council had been so impressed by this feat that it dare not be removed. I saw this in about 2003, but after 17 years I presume it's still there.

[Old Frightful]

wtf is "Gourango"

Cheers John, as soon as I read the OP, I struggled to remember that word, having seen it all over bridges in Hull a while back.

(Although looking at your spelling of it, it appears you struggled a bit too)

[Stevo]

A day or so after Elvis died, some graffiti appeared on a brick factory wall in a town I later moved away from; capped up, white emulsion executed in thick strokes - it extended about 10 metres or so:

"A KING NEVER DIES"

At some point, the graffiti was painted over in a black stripe - but whenever I went back to that town and saw that covering black stripe, I knew what was written underneath and I liked to think of the original painter, and wondered what he thought now about his 20+ year old tribute.

About 5 years or so ago, the factory was knocked down. It made me feel unnecessarily sad, as though the paint on the wall had held something of the spirit of both the artist and the honoured.

[WearyRhino]

A link to a compendium of graffiti (I was looking for a Nigel Rees weblink but he obviously still wants to sell the books)

I have to admit a liking for the deeply philosophical "Geography is Everywhere".

"George Davis is Innocent" is still adorning the odd wall - moreover, the Appeal Court said he is a few weeks ago!

[JohnM]

it appears you struggled a bit too

true enough...life is getting to be one long struggle!!

[marklaspalmas]

"Fev Punks" was the legendary message on a wall in Post Office road which lasted for decades.

I remember the Viraj Mendis stuff at Manchester circa 1988, including one or two slightly less supportive comments. Did he ever get deported?