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Floyd Road mural
RodneyCharltonTrotta
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Must've walked past this literally hundreds of times but never really looked at it til I came across it on the internet.
Anyone know what it is and why it's there?
Anyone know what it is and why it's there?
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Its looking a bit shabby nowadays. Seem to remember it was a greenwich community all working together sort of thing but could be wrong.
Shame we can't get a few artistic Addicks to design a new mural based on our history but it would cost money and need organising, talking to the locals and the council.
On a wider point I really love wall end murals especially the ones from Ulster. Have a excellent book of them called 'Drawing Support'0 -
Me too. My brother and his mate did the one in Amersham Arms beer garden in new cross a while back but dont seem to be many around nowdays.
Should really give our one above a spruce up.0 -
It symbolises a chip shop that only opens 23 or so times a year !0
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Ask them how much it would cost to tidy up the current one and to do a new one.0
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Will do.0
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[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Ask them how much it would cost to tidy up the current one and to do a new one.
Couldn't we ask the ball boys to do it?
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Or Alan McCormack? Seems he has nothing much to do these days.
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Im surprised its still there to be honest and not painted over by yobs etc or even worse the locals just like the one in Woolwich opposite the swimming pool!0
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[cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite][cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Ask them how much it would cost to tidy up the current one and to do a new one.
Couldn't we ask the ball boys to do it?
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Brilliant idea!0 -
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Www.sceneatheme.com
Scene a Theme could paint one very well...0 -
Simon Jordan had a nice one in his house I seem to remember0
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[cite]Posted By: Cuff[/cite]Simon Jordan had a nice one in his house I seem to remember
Asked on here before, but can someone post a link to that awful mural as I cant find it on the internet anywhere.0 -
Yeah very talented guy, has done work for Adidas and won loads of different awards for his work. Customised some drum sticks for me as well[cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]
Those are great. My favourite is the one on the shack (Jamaica?).[cite]Posted By: colthe3rd[/cite]My mate does a lot of street art commissions
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Doubt anyone would want to pay him to do one there, pretty cool stuff though0 -
Isn't there a more recent addition of a large penis on the current mural. Seem to recall it making me chuckle a few times.0
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Perhaps we could have a mural done on the North stand wall coz that looks a bit bland with just the large crest on it!
What or who would you have in the picture?
Definately Rachel in that white dress
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[cite]Posted By: Cuff[/cite]Simon Jordan had a nice one in his house I seem to remember
What were you doing round there?0 -
Judging from this picture, the mural is on the side of what was once Sam Bartram's shop. I can't think of a better community project for the club than to get a tribute to the great man writ large upon the wall there. Perhaps done by local kids under the tutelage of a professional artist. Of course, that would be dependant on the owners wanting it.
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For some reason that picture reminds me of Reservoir Dogs...Lets go to work Mr Red and so on0
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They're off to the Lib to see who's won the gnome0
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Wasnt the world nice in black and white0
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"Benny Fenton leads mass walk out of Charlton players after Jimmy Trotter bans use of Twitter"0
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Off over the road with Sam's Makro card0
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Isn't the fella at the back on the right Dailly?0
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Yes bet there was no dog poo on the floor or chicken shop cartoons then.0
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Yes, definitely looking a bit shabby now - surely an artist amongst us could design something - encompasing maybe the play off final and FA cup final win or maybe Chrissy Powell doing his tunnnel leap - and a few of us who can handle a paint brush could volunteer to colour it in.0
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Plaayer - I've just spluttered red wine over my iPad - very good.0
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Hello! I saw this photo (well I took it) and thought I'd tell you a bit more about your mural. It was painted in 1976 so is nearly 35 years old. The creator are the Greenwich Mural Workshop (http://www.greenwichmuralworkshop.com/) who are still going strong - perhaps you can get them to repair the mural and paint a new one continuing the tradition of recording local history on the walls!
I run this project - the London Mural preservation Society - and have just written up Floyd Road. We collect local memories of murals so if you have a story about that one or any of the others let us know. And let us know if you get any new murals painted!
http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.com/murals/floyd-road/0 -
Nice one Ruthl, thanks for sharing. I was born in 76!0
