Graffiti.

Also I want to knife a Preston Bastard was around for a good while too .
Where was that? I know the picture your on about, but honestly I've got a doubt in my mind it was in Blackpool. Its easy to assume it was, but I never saw it, and its the kind of thing you'd remember. I think I've seen it mentioned on another site that its possibly Wigan, but I'd happily be wrong. The photo looks like the alley from Central Drive that crosses Henry St,up to the back of the Scratching Shed but from my memory all that was ever written there was Blackpool FC in big letters.

Could be a good thread this, if anyone knows for sure. I'll add some more old BFC artwork, in addition to my earlier post, that springs to mind on the back of the Abbatoir on Devonshire Road, you could see some there for years from the train, and on the old signal box as you left North Station Also their was loads on the way into Preston Station,but that's long gone.
 
On Claremont Park, wall at the school end. PC Brown, leave those kids alone. Dominated and brought colour to the wall, shame there are no policeman like him these days. Times have changed for the worse.
 
Bus Shelter at Spen Corner where you would get on No 6 or 11c buses had loads of great graffitI. One particularly magnificent example was “Poulton Penis Crew” some of whom I’m guessing must be on this board😀
 
On the St Johns Ambulance centre, corner of Park Rd and Hornby Rd - 'Hang the IRA' was painted on the side wall back in the 70s and is still visible, though a little faded 50 years later.
 
You don’t see much Graffiti nowadays compared to the seventies and eighties, probably because modern day teenagers don’t hang around the streets as they’re all indoors on the Xbox. It’s a shame in many ways as a spray painted penis always raised a smile.
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You cant beat the classics 😆
 
back in the day tagging was all about some guy called summat like Chinney ?? Chimy??? Chimmy of BFC ???
 
Where was that? I know the picture your on about, but honestly I've got a doubt in my mind it was in Blackpool. Its easy to assume it was, but I never saw it, and its the kind of thing you'd remember. I think I've seen it mentioned on another site that its possibly Wigan, but I'd happily be wrong. The photo looks like the alley from Central Drive that crosses Henry St,up to the back of the Scratching Shed but from my memory all that was ever written there was Blackpool FC in big letters.

Could be a good thread this, if anyone knows for sure. I'll add some more old BFC artwork, in addition to my earlier post, that springs to mind on the back of the Abbatoir on Devonshire Road, you could see some there for years from the train, and on the old signal box as you left North Station Also their was loads on the way into Preston Station,but that's long gone.
Pretty sure it was behind the Mecca , I remember the ones near Preston station very clearly.
 
Bus Shelter at Spen Corner where you would get on No 6 or 11c buses had loads of great graffitI. One particularly magnificent example was “Poulton Penis Crew” some of whom I’m guessing must be on this board😀
My memory of that bus shelter was the graffiti sign SparkS - South Shore Park.
 
Gone are the good old days of proper graffiti like Welcome Back Bolton, and Seaside Mafia in industrial tangerine paint on the railway line into North Station and Blackpool Kings Of Deepdale on a wall on the wasteland on the way from Central Drive bogs to the ground before they built Yeadon Way. And dont get me started on the Potts Must Go work of art that survived on the back of Scratching Shed from 1976 to the day they knocked it down 30 odd years later. Modern street art, my arse.
 

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Thats the photo alright. I'm just not 100% its actually a Blackpool photo, as I said in my previous post. Never seen it "in the flesh" so to speak, until it appeared on social media a few years back, and I'm sure I'd have seen it or heard about it over the years if it was . Might even of had my photo taken with it 🤪
 
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