Friday, 29 June 2007

SENTIMENTAL OLD SOD

I know this is sentimental old slush but I'm in mourning at the loss of some graffiti that i had seen every day on the way to and from school and often since.
The graffiti wasn't the most intellectual ever done but i liked it, i also liked it as well because it was done on a school wall that i passed on my way to the bus stop, all it said was 'COCKNEY REJECTS- THE FIRM!' but it had been there since about 1980, as time went on and the weather got to it i meant to take a photo of it before it faded away but alas, now nature has taken its course and it has now faded away and can only be seen if you stare hard at the brickwork at a distance of six inches.
I know its a bit "i remember when this was all fields" but i still feel a little bit sad now its gone, what a sentimental old fool i am.
p.s, i have been told by a dependable source that it was done by a member of the 'ladbroke grove skins', who famously battled against Nazi skins at a 4-skins gig in aklam hall with the aid of local west Indian youth's (the 'L.G.S' being one of the only non Nazi skinhead gangs of the time to make a name for themselves, and were hated for not 'turning', see the video/DVD of the documentary 'rough cut and ready dubbed' for a good example where they become the butt of jokes and insults from Nazi skins hanging outside the 'last resort' shop).

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