{"id":2027,"date":"2010-07-27T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2010-07-27T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T09:02:43","slug":"street-signs-and-graffiti-london-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/street-signs-and-graffiti-london-july-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Street signs, stickers and graffiti, London July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A collection of street signs and graffiti seen around London.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t complain about the sentiments contained in this sticker seen near Carnaby Street, W1.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-02.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keep off the bulk timbers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-03.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-04.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old book pages stuck on a door.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-05.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-06.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a bill I&#8217;d like to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-07.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy plums near Blackfriars Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-08.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bee happy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-09.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-10.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old bloke passes the happy plums.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-11.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello? Union Street, SE1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-12.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross Bones Graveyard, SE1- a medieval unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes (called &#8216;Winchester Geese&#8217; at the time because they were licensed by the Bishop of\u00a0 Winchester).<\/p>\n<p>By the 18th century it had become a paupers&#8217; burial ground, which finally closed in 1853. A decorated shrine has now sprung up on the site.<br \/>\n<strong>More info<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossbones.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">crossbones.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-18.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that about Big Dave (look closer).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-13.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-14.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old &#8211; and rather rare &#8211; Penfold Hexagonal postbox on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/devonshire-road-nature-reserve-annual-open-day\/\">Devonshire Road, Forest Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These were the standard design for UK Post Office boxes between 1866\u20131879.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-15.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/police.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton police station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-16.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of many bizarre slogan covered plant pots that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/police.html\" target=\"_blank\">regularly appear outside Brixton police station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-photos-july-2010-17.jpg\" alt=\"Street signs and graffiti, London July 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shop poster inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/brixton-village-indoor-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton Village<\/a> (Granville Arcade).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of street signs and graffiti seen around London.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t complain about the sentiments contained in this sticker seen near Carnaby Street, W1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,17,193],"tags":[289,197,10,190],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton-village","tag-graffiti","tag-london","tag-soho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/london-photos-july-2010-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-wH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}