Heartland

Until fairly recently passengers on the Knaresborough/Harrogate train were greeted with the truly heartwarming sight of:

"The Sisters of Mercy - Rise and Reverberate"

written in spray paint on the back of one of the end houses just before Burley Park station.

Unfortunately some philistine has removed it. Does anyone know who was originally responsible? Could they be persuaded to restore their masterwork to its former glory?

Like the sound of that.....

There is a town just south of St Andrews up in Scotland called Crook of Devon - some smartypants spray painted "Twin Town - Thief Of Baghdad"
under the signpost....

nearly crashed the car as I passed......

Zuma wrote:Like the sound of that.....

There is a town just south of St Andrews up in Scotland called Crook of Devon - some smartypants spray painted "Twin Town - Thief Of Baghdad"
under the signpost....

nearly crashed the car as I passed......

Who said graffiti was always antisocial?

Maybe Nigel Rees should be taken out of the deep freeze and persuaded to write another of his fine collections, only this time without so many "**** is gay" type entries...

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You must be f**king joking...

Chairman Bux wrote:Yes
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You must be f**king joking...

ahh. i wondered when you'd show up!

how was the vacation? found edward yet?

On the platform at Redcar Central Railway Station (Saltburn-Middlesbrough line in North Yorkshire/Cleveland) spray painted in white above a bricked in doorway "Sisters of Mercy" - it's been there 14 years to my knowledge (they even repainted and cleaned up the place of graffiti but left this for all to see!)

In Leeds just past Park Lane College on a wall I saw "The Sisters Of Mercy" painted with a stencil in quite small lettering. This had been put there sometime in the early 80's and was still there last time I walked by that way in the early 90's.

mockeldritch wrote:Until fairly recently passengers on the Knaresborough/Harrogate train were greeted with the truly heartwarming sight of:

"The Sisters of Mercy - Rise and Reverberate"

written in spray paint on the back of one of the end houses just before Burley Park station.

Unfortunately some philistine has removed it. Does anyone know who was originally responsible? Could they be persuaded to restore their masterwork to its former glory?

I know that bit because I used to live by Burley Park station. Most disappointed to see it had been covered up, although the The Sister Of Mercy in blue at the top of the Beechwoods just round from my old house was just about still visible when I went there on Sunday. Both examples are/were just a short walk from Village Place where Andrew used to live. I wonder...

Alexander

If memory serves there is a credit on 'Wake' to amongst others Surfin' Merb and the Ashville Mofos.
The 'Ashvilles' are four or five streets of terraced houses that run alongside the train line near Burley Park station...

More significantly, one of them (Grove I think...) has a CHEMISTS at the end of the street!

Do I need to spell it out or can you fill in the gaps

Mik

...That Guitarist used to have a hamster called Ashville...so-called because he used to live on one of the Ashvilles...

Personally I reckon you got a better class of sad old goth in the Thornvilles...did when I lived there, anyway...

aaaargh! Ed! You made me tell you my password when I was pissed, didn't you? & now you've put me an avatar & a dodgy signature up!

Git!

mik wrote:If memory serves there is a credit on 'Wake' to amongst others Surfin' Merb and the Ashville Mofos.
The 'Ashvilles' are four or five streets of terraced houses that run alongside the train line near Burley Park station...

More significantly, one of them (Grove I think...) has a CHEMISTS at the end of the street!

Do I need to spell it out or can you fill in the gaps

Mik

Missed the Ashville ref. at the end of the Wake vid, although having lived across the road I know well what the roads are called.

However I'd always assumed that "above the chemists" was a metaphor.

Still be interested in knowing who *specifically* was responsible. Pure curiosity, you understand.

Addendum: I've just remembered that, ironically, a "chemist" of my acquaintance once lived on Ashville Grove.

Carrie wrote: sad old goth in the Thornvilles

Should that not be 'sad old Guardian Reader in the Thornvilles'?

I'd look more in the Kirkstall area nowerdays though

paint it black wrote:I'd look more in the Kirkstall area nowerdays though

but you can still find a merciful connection in the groves

you'd think he would at least live and/or work in a NICE part of leeds wouldn't you?

Hi Karst....like "The The" avatar....just made me dig out Soul Mining for the firdt time in a long time...

Yeah but can you believe that house in Village Place was only rented for all those years, Claire (ex) and Mick (Brown, ex m*****n) only moved out to Armley recently. He's looking better these days at least. By the way, the non-Spanish 'residence' in Kirkstall has bullet proof glass as one of Von's key purchases. Paranoia getting out of hand I'd say...

Michael

Karst wrote:

Carrie wrote: sad old goth in the Thornvilles

Should that not be 'sad old Guardian Reader in the Thornvilles'?

:Klol:

Bloody cheek Karst! A totally unwarranted assumption based on meeting me ONCE...*and* at a Mision gig I might add...

lol@Ed's cunning....very well done!!!!! (have you thought of changing your name to Weaver ? lol)