{"id":11042,"date":"2013-02-13T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:20:23","slug":"the-skateboard-graveyard-of-hungerford-bridge-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-skateboard-graveyard-of-hungerford-bridge-continues-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skateboard Graveyard of Hungerford Bridge continues to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

Growing\u00a0steadily since some time around 2009, this pile of broken skateboards can be found facing the\u00a0\u00a0downstream pedestrian crossing on Hungerford Bridge.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"skateboard-graveyard-2\"<\/p>\n

The broken skateboards\u00a0have been thrown down from the Hungerford bridge walkway, and have come to rest on an\u00a0inaccessible bridge pier on the River Thames.<\/p>\n

There’s also the odd discarded trainer or two to be seen.<\/p>\n

\"skateboard-graveyard-1\"<\/p>\n

With many of the boards coming to grief at the nearby Southbank <\/a>Centre\u00a0Skate\u00a0Park (under the\u00a0Queen Elizabeth Hall), there’s a ready potential supply of ex-decks, and\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0from our good friends at the Londonist shows just how the collection has grown since March 2011.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0was also set up to keep a record of the ‘dead’ boards with owners invited to leave an\u00a0obituary, but it doesn’t appear to have been updated much.<\/p>\n

On the urban75 bulletin boards<\/a> it’s been suggested that the graveyard may have been established as a tribute to a skateboarder shockingly murdered on the bridge<\/a> in 1999.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

[Graveyard location]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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