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Yanks out of Vietnam !

( Circa 1968 to 1975 )

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Cofiwch Dryweryn

( Remember Treweryn )

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Pay the miners

( Circa 1972 )

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Welcome to Hell !

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United ran that way ->

( Cardiff City v Man Utd 1974 )

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Jim loves Julian more than Splott

( Portmanmoor Road, Cardiff.  Jim = Jim Callaghan then the local MP, Julian = Julian Hodge local merchant banker )

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Plenty of local gang graffiti was daubed on walls in Glasgow in the 70's.  Still is in fact.  

 

Ya Bass...followed a gang's name. It was not a term of endearment.

 

Kai appeared after Rangers beat Celtic in a Scottish Cup Final replay - reference to Kai Johansen the full back.

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Ya Bass...followed a gang's name. It was not a term of endearment.

 

Kai appeared after Rangers beat Celtic in a Scottish Cup Final replay - reference to Kai Johansen the full back.

Rangers Vs Celtic (with Rangers winning), with both sides supporters having strong links and a huge fan base from the various factions in Norn Ireland, are you sure KAI wasn't being used with a sectarian meaning?

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 Most of the graffiti was very poorly executed, especially the stuff large enough to be legible in 4mm scale, so I would say you are bob on there!

 

A prize specimen that I saw regularly in the 1970s- as I recall its very sloppy rendering, but with name changed to protect reputation - was:

 

SHARN HARIS

IS A GO0D FUCK

 

Second in humour only to the Hatfield Polytechnic's celebrated paean to 'the wold's greatest living shiite' in  the late 1970s

 

And don't forget the CND cowardly chicken footprint symbol, Che Lives! and hammer and sickle motif as counterpoints to the NF stuff.

 

 1970s, At least once done in enduring quality too, a faded 'Give Peas a chance' is still on view.

 

Realise you have changed name to protect the girl actually named's reputation, but are you saying Sharn Haris wasn't a good...?

 

One common in university areas in the late 60s; 'There is a policeman in all our minds.  He must be eradicated'.  And from the same period, 'Kimble is innocent'; the tv series of 'The Fugitive' was popular at the time.  I remember this on the tank of a 42xx at Barry scrapyard in the days when you could find engines in better condition there than in engine sheds.

 

'Give peas a chance' has re-appeared on a road junction near me in the last few months, in knitted fabric on a set of railings.  Quite right, too, beans have had it their own way for too long...

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Realise you have changed name to protect the girl actually named's reputation, but are you saying Sharn Haris wasn't a good...

 I really couldn't say. Despite for a short while working for a business which specialised it seemed in employing every available young woman from Essex, and thus having met many Sharns (also Traces, Bevs, Sness, Charms, Lexys, Vickis, Trines, Belles and not forgetting Mitch-ELLEs) never knowingly have I met a Sharn Harris.

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"Free George Davis" common in London, not sure about elsewhere. This was c1975, and the campaigners dug up the Yorkshire cricket ground before a test match, as well as covering London with graffiti.

 

 

Quite often with the additional (certainly around Merseyside)

 

"with Corn Flakes"

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Another thing slightly off topic is advertisments bridges used to carry into the 1970's . In Gloucester we had two. One was on the Bristol to Birmingham Line which said "Williamson and Jame's reducing valves" painted in bright blue with a huge arrow pointing to the William and James Factory. Also coming out of Gloucester towards Birmingham just North of the yards a main road into the city was crossed by a bridge with a huge advertisment for "Ferodo brakepads 1969". It was certainly there well into the late 1970's but got painted out. You look closely though the paint is now fading and the ad is becoming visible again! Theres also another bridge in a district called Tredworth which in the late 80's/early 90's was daubed with "Free Gary Mills". That was a well known local campaign similar to the George Davis style in the typical styles I talking about :)

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Taunton also had a Ferodo bridge ad, on the freight loop south of the passenger station.

 

Cardiff had 'Brains' (the local beer) bridges, but that's not exactly graffiti.  Most of ours were football or Welsh Nationlaist/Language related in those days.  There was of course the ubiquitous 'My mother made me a homosexual' 'if I gave her the wool, would she make me one?', but that was usually too small for modelling, at least in 4mm; you can probably be as aspirationally gay as you like in larger scales!

 

Gets coat and leaves...

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The other one was 'Free Astrid Proll' - which seemned to frequently have added 'with every ten gallons'  (who else remembers 'free glasses' if you bought enough petrol?)

 

Usually with four gallons which cost around a pound in the sixties. IIRC the offers ended in the early seventies, when OPEC cut supplies. It was about 35p a gallon by then.

 

There were lots of ads for 'Ferodo' brake linings - mainly shoes for drum brakes back then. It was quite a 'big deal' to have front disc brakes. Four wheel discs were almost unheard of.

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Who recalls.......

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" Free George Davis"

 

and

 

"George Davis is innocent"

 

apparently he was 'innocent' ( well in legal speak his conviction was unsound ) but then DAVIS went on to repay his supporters by committing, and getting potted for two further armed blaggings after his release.

 

The term 'Leopards' and 'spots' springs to mind. 

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Yanks out of Vietnam !

( Circa 1968 to 1975 )

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cofiwch Dryweryn

( Remember Treweryn )

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pay the miners

( Circa 1972 )

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Welcome to Hell !

and

United ran that way ->

( Cardiff City v Man Utd 1974 )

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Jim loves Julian more than Splott

( Portmanmoor Road, Cardiff.  Jim = Jim Callaghan then the local MP, Julian = Julian Hodge local merchant banker )

 

Jim Callaghan was the only serving Prime Minister of Great Britain who ever bought me a pint of beer.

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Chad was alive and well on BR in the 70s, if brake van graffiti was anything to go by; he appeared in locker rooms and mess rooms as well, usually with his nose hanging over a well bricked wall.

 

Wot no rest days...

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