When London Became An Island

The Graffiti Walls,

Hertford Union Canal

The five photographs below show the gradual obliteration of the Silent Hobo mural - and then the obliteration of part of that obliteration - on the flank wall between June and November 2017.

Individual artists sometimes left quite an impression in a series of sprays. The pictures below were produced by epod.

Guess who produced this work (not sure about the three on the second row, but they have style similarities).

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In 2018 the ‘Its Time to Talk’ poster was displayed near the bottom lock. Interesting that the meeting was to be held in the local Senior Citizens Hall - perhaps bringing echoes of the greyhound and speedway era. However, a flyer appearing on the nearby Greenway seems to indicate there were other residents who had arrived in the transient period that would last only until the local high density redevelopment was completed. Those developments are now in sight of being concluded, one marker being the demolition of most, if not all, the lock and canal side walls (and occasionally doors) on which graffiti artists worked. This section shows a few of the many sprays that graced those spaces. Nothing usually lasted long - maybe only one or two days until they started to disappear under new work.

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