This is probably the first item relating to graffiti that I had ever photgraphed. I had been on a 4-day motoring tour of Scotland at Easter 1952 with 3 Australians in a hired car, and we were on our way back from Ballater to Newcastle-on-Tyne when we had to drive very cautiously down this difficult piece of road which was called "Devil's Elbow.
The map above the concrete blocks and road is a map from that part of Scotland where the Devil's Elbow is, and the map is from page 279 in "Road Atlas of Great Britain" published byCassell and Collier Macmillan in 1977.
At the bottom left of the road map photo can be seen in very small writing the words "Devil's Elbow".
Many Scots have long desired to see the English leave their country, and the graffiti on one of the blocks reads:
Wall panel in tunnel to St James Station, Sydney,
Building site in George Street, Sydney
Martin Place, Sydney
Pitt Street, Sydney
George Street, Sydney
Circular Quay, Sydney
Somewhere in Sydney
Circular Quay, Sydney
After the fire at Lakemba Station, Sydney
Toilet at North End Pier 1, Ferry Terminal, Sydney, End January 1988
Melbourne tram strike January 1990
National Action litters Lakemba with its detritus , Sydney
Toilet writings at North Sydney College of TAFE, Sydney
Billboard on Wollstonecraft Station, Sydney
Underground walkway at Westwood Campus, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Anti-Ananda Marga, anti-gay graffiti, Bridge Street, Sydney
Graffiti in toilet, Martin Place, Sydney
Wall painting, King Street, Newtown, Sydney
Old Brickworks, Sydney Park, St Peters, Sydney
Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne
Stockton Breakwater, Stockton, Newcastle
Message on van parked in William Street, Maryville, Newcastle at the time of French nuclear tests on/in Muroroa Atoll in the Pacific
Maritime Union of Australia picket in Hickson Road, Darling Harbour, Sydney
On a fence in Morpeth, Near Newcastle, NSW
On a factory in William Street, Maryville, and on the street around the corner Newcastle, NSW
On fence in laneway, Maryville, Newcastle, NSW
World Economic Forum, Southbank, Melbourne - known as S11
In St Kilda, Melbourne during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
Meat factory wall, Northcote butchery, Melbourne
Path along Throsby Creek, Maryville, Newcastle
Northcote wall, Melbourne
During M1 in Melbourne, Collins Street hoardings
At the back of the Hunter ACON premises, Maitland Road, Newcastle
Buildings in Broadway, Sydney, possibly awaiting demolishing.
Near Caos Cafe, Adelaide
Near King Street, Newtown, Sydney
On a wall in Mitchell Street near the corner of High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
On a wall in Roseberry Avenue near High Street, Preston
On a "SOLD" board corner of Plenty Road and Margaret Street, Preston
"BEHEAD! Climate Change Deniers"
On a traffic light controller at corner of High Street and Gower Street, Preston
"Wankers" on Socialist Alternative "Marxism 2013" poster
On a post box in Plenty Road, just north of Gregory Grove, Preston
"Tony Abbott is a toy"
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"If You See Racism, Say Something" - Federal Government poster to strike fear into an already racist population!
On a tram shelter in Plenty Road corner of Murray Road, Preston
Items seen in Northcote, Thornbury and Preston during JULY 2017
Poster seen in High Street, Thornbury, opposite Darebin Road, and photo taken by Gary Jaynes nine days before Batman by-election on 17 MARCH 2018
Poster seen round the corner from High Street, Northcote, opposite Mitchell Street, photo taken by Mannie De Saxe on 21 MARCH 2018
Poster seen in High Street, Northcote, opposite Mitchell Street, photo taken by Mannie De Saxe on 21 MARCH 2018
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