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Recliner wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message

On Dec 26, 9:08 am, Paul G wrote:
...sadly vandals and the otherwise bored and useless of London
decided to spend Christmas Day at Mile End station. Graffiti
artist(s) evidently had plenty of time to put meaningless scrawls on
most surfaces and hoardings on the platforms. I didn't bother
venturing off the very crowded train to see if they had defaced the
booking hall.

Who, here, believes that this would have happened, in the UK on
December 25, 1957?

Presumably modern graffiti relies on spray paint cans that weren't yet
invented in 1957.


Quite. In earlier days it had to be brush-painted: there are some fine
examples of early 1960s brush-painted slogans around here

http://www.startadsl.hu/malex/Tryweryn.htm

though as it's now something of a treasured monument it's best regarded as
"heavily restored".

In earlier days still chalking and pasting up block-print posters were the
facoured methods - those and carving initials into brick and stonework. A
local preserved railway has some examples of this sort of vandalism dating
back to the 1870s...

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

"Who dies with the most toys wins" (Gary Barnes)