Blake Mural opposite Goose Green playground

[Fitzgeraldo]

Blake Mural opposite Goose Green playground ? a truly appalling restoration

One can only applaud the intentions of the locals who cleaned up this previously pleasing mural following its desecration by the fiendish graffiti perpetrators. Unfortunately their efforts (I believe on two occasions) made to return the images to their original state have fallen somewhat short. The current mural is beyond belief in its awfulness. The figure of the bird (heron or egret) in particular is dreadful but not quite so dreadful as the lettering of Blake?s lines.

Is it possible to organise a collection (or persuade the council) to fund the restoration of this splendid addition to the local environment and then cover it in some form of transparent/easily cleaned compound to preserve it in perpetuity?

[rch]

The quickest and easiest solution would be for you and/or other ward residents to make a CGS bid for funding, as next year's fund has just opened (and closes end of November). You might want to see if you can liaise with a council officer on what the mural actually needs so that they can help to oversee the works properly if you are awarded the funding.

Here's a link to the CGS Fund details:-

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/cleanergreenersafer

Depending on whether the repairs are deemed to require capital or revenue funding, you might need to apply via a different route called the Neighbourhood Fund, which opens in November. To do this, you might need to go through a constituted amenity society, such as The Peckham Society.

In any case, the more residents and community groups that are involved, the more likely funding will be awarded. If this route fails, then you can look at the crowdfunding option...

[Sue]

I believe it was restored by the original artist, with the help of local schoolchildren.

I stand to be corrected. There was discussion on the forum at the time, so I'm sure somebody else will remember or be able to find the thread.

If that's the case, I'm not sure it would do a great deal for the self-esteem of the kids to paint over their efforts.

[cella]

It's a shame the mural is located there as it's used daily for football practice by the kids playing on that patch of green and sometimes as a urinal by random men. Not sure what can be done to permanently protect it really.

[bawdy-nan]

I interviewed the daughter of the artist (Stan Peskett) for a radio 4 arts doc last week, in fact. The blue lower section is, she thought, down to the council overpainting the graffiti.

[dc]

rch Wrote:

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> The quickest and easiest solution would be for you

> and/or other ward residents to make a CGS bid for

> funding, as next year's fund has just opened (and

> closes end of November). You might want to see if

> you can liaise with a council officer on what the

> mural actually needs so that they can help to

> oversee the works properly if you are awarded the

> funding.

>

> Here's a link to the CGS Fund details:-

>

> http://www.southwark.gov.uk/cleanergreenersafer

>

> Depending on whether the repairs are deemed to

> require capital or revenue funding, you might need

> to apply via a different route called the

> Neighbourhood Fund, which opens in November. To do

> this, you might need to go through a constituted

> amenity society, such as The Peckham Society.

>

> In any case, the more residents and community

> groups that are involved, the more likely funding

> will be awarded. If this route fails, then you can

> look at the crowdfunding option...

Good idea but a complicating issue with a CGS bid at that point is that the East Dulwich Road/Adys Rd/CP Road junction is where 4 wards and 3 Community Councils meet.

That may, of course, provide an opportunity as well as a challenge if each of the Community Councils is willing to chip in towards a restoration project, given the prominence of the spot.