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Very sad to see that Stan Peskett's William Blake mural on Goose Green has been scribbled all over. Is it repairable? The last time this happened the Council painted out the lower half of the mural and it needed a community project to bring Stan back to London to restore it.

It's a shame it's been defaced, it's a cool piece.

I have though, always thought that's the creepiest mural to have right by a kiddies play park: the ghosts coming out of the hill bit looks like the stuff of nightmares!

I'm sure it's all to do with my lack of understanding about what it actually means.

Is it not possible / feasible for these works to have a clear coat of anti-graffiti paint over them? The stuff that lets you just wash off whatever is sprayed onto it. No idea whether it interferes with the paintwork underneath.


I'm planning to use the stuff on the wall of my house, which is regularly tagged :-/

I worked on the restoration of the mural in 2010 and it got a coating of anti-graffiti film on the lower section. What you might see today is the second lot of tags that sprung up recently, the first ones were cleaned off by (I assume) the council. I don't know how many times that the council will carry on cleaning it up though, but at least it can be done.

Funny how all of the other 'posh' pieces of street art around ED that are based on paintings in Dulwich Art Gallery haven't been hit so badly. Could the tagging really be the work of middle class intellectuals?


And on that bombshell!

WhatsMyName Wrote:

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> Coincidentally, Radio 4 is talking about William

> Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" this

> morning. And for Blake and children playing read

> "The Echoing Green" - could have been written for

> modern day Goose Green.


It's always irritated me, old git that I am, by the way the words were so squeezed into the mural that there was no room left for a "the" before "echoing green"!

I've always thought ther is a general lack of respect shown to this mural. Children regularly play foitball on the patch of green and their footballs are constantly being kicked against the wall. Workmen were doing some work on the Flying Pig next door and had ladders and work gear up against the painting for a few days. I posted a while ago about a man urinatung against it in broad daylight. Plus graffiti. Shame.

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