Graffiti

More Graffiti

Good day to you all.

Apologies for the lack of recent activity – the usual reasons apply here, annoyingly. I have been trying to keep active on twitter as a way of making it up to you, my valued readers… but I know, it’s not the same thing.

Anyway, here is a short entry to keep you going. I have bigger plans of more interesting things, and hopefully, given that it is a bank holiday, I might get it posted. In the meantime… graffiti!

Firstly, this cross from the wall outside the vets on Gladstone Street.

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A simple cross carved onto the wall coping by the gate on the Gladstone Street side. 

Simply executed, and part of me wonders if there is some connection between this and the other crosses that I have noticed around Whitfield – here and here. Just a thought.

Now back to Whitfield Recreation Ground. I know I keep threatening to do it, but I really do have a post in the making on the rec. A very interesting place indeed.

Anyway, these are all from the Wood Street side of the ground.

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‘WFHS’ perhaps – very unclear.
Graf 3
Er… no idea! It is almost like some sort of occult symbol. Witchcraft and devil worship in Whitfield… I knew it! But then it also looks a little like this Pokemon character, so who knows! And don’t ask how I know that…
Graf 4
‘Jo’ – nice and simple. There is also the hint of something below and to the right – geometric designs? It is easier to see in the flesh, so to speak. 
Graf 5
‘LH’ – nicely carved.

And to end… this! How and why someone did this, I don’t know, but they did.

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Ladies and gentlemen… the alphabet!

It gets a little blurry in the middle, from ‘J’ onwards, but then picks up again from ‘W’. But it’s all there.

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I used chalk to try and bring out the latter part. You can also make out ‘P’, ‘Q’, and ‘R’.

Truly weird and wonderful.

That’s all for now, but keep your eyes open, and send me photographs of any you find – I have a few from readers that I’ll publish next time. And I’ll try and post again before the bank holiday is over.

RH

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