About a year before the pandemic a council estate next to where I live was being flattened to make way for ‘Affordable Housing’. All those empty homes attracted vandals who decided they would help with the demolishing. Lighting fires, causing havoc and general mayhem….
Then some bright spark had a good idea… Let professional graffiti artists go to work on the houses…
The results were fantastic…
Guess what? The vandalism stopped…
It was very strange, walking around those quiet empty streets….
A great outdoor art exhibition, certainly one of the biggest…
It’s all gone now, ready for the new build…
But for a while there, it was a thing of beauty…
Life is a rusty rollercoaster 
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Wow. I admit I was sorry to hear they’re all gone now…. that was a fabulous display of creativity.
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The photos really don’t do it justice.
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Amazing. I’m normally dead against graffiti, but these paintings were brilliant. I hope that the images were somehow captured before the houses got demolished.
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Plenty of photos taken but they don’t do it justice.
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They were amazing. Would have made a great photographic exhibition.
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I think Bankside Gallery Hull were behind it and presumably they have a website. It really was fantastic.
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I was really impressed. Better than some of Banksy’s stuff…
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Wow, that’s really nice to see!
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Yeah it was really good. I walked around it on my own and it was very quiet. Great to see.
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I like that, especially as it is temporary!
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The artists did a fabulous job, wow!
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I love this type of art. Thanks for posting
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Thank you!
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that is just cool!
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Good isn’t it!
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Absolutely!
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Brilliant!
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I absolutely LOVE the graffiti! So sorry it’s gone now, but at least you have the pictures. Are you familiar with Banksy? I’ve done a couple of posts about him and his graffiti art … amazing artist!
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It was brilliant…and weird at the same time! Yes Hull has a Banksy. It’s called ‘Draw the raised bridge’ and it was actually on the side of disused bridge. He work is amazing.
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Love it!
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Thanks Eb x
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Such a good idea!
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It’s a great idea isn’t it!
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wow… fantastic idea… and so beautiful too. seattle has murals on some buildings but nothing that extensive.
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We have lots now in Hull. We became the City of Culture in 2017 and it changed the city.
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Very nice! A wonderful idea I think!
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It really was brilliant to see.
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Some great art there. You did a good job photographing it – thanks for sharing.
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