Back to the 1980s now, to look at some of the posters stuck on walls in London captured by Peter Marshall as he walked around the city. There are posters calling for Iran and the country’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini (1900-1989) to ‘stop killing children’.
Another tells passersby that Rupert Everett, Fiona and Bob Dylan are in the movie Hearts of Fire. There are posters put up in support of the striking miners and the fight that turned parts of Britain into battlefields, and others telling locals that “Big Money is Moving in” to London’s Docklands – omitting the message that the working class will be moved out (the change part of the story in the brilliant film The Long Good Friday).
And on the wall of a cafe named Cafe des Chiens on the Isle of Dogs – renamed in graffiti ‘Cafe des Failure’ – there’s news that Gerry Cottle and his circus are. So best look out. Many are just ripped and town on grotty walls and unloved buildings. London the 1980s was undergoing seismic change as the money moved in…
Poster, Queensgate, South Kensington, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988
Poster, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1987
Torn posters, Sclater St, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1989
Posters, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1989
‘I think these were for sale, hanging on the wall of the Mosque.’
Poster, Queensgate, South Kensington, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988
Poster, Queensgate, South Kensington, Kensington & Chelsea, 1988
Poster, Fonthill Rd, Finsbury Park, Islington, Haringey, 1989
Mural, Deptford Train Yard, Douglas Way, Deptford, Lewisham, 1984
King George V Dock, Newham, 1984
Hackney Rd, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Docklands Community Poster Project, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Commercial Rd, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Closed shop, Westferry Rd, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Cash Stores, South London, 1984
Posters, Cypriot, Stoke Newington Rd, Shacklewell, Hackney, 1989
Posters, Kilburn High Rd, Kilburn, Brent,,1988
Posters, Stoke Newington High St, Stoke Newington, Hackney, 1989
Posters, King George V, Royal Albert Docks, Newham, 1984
Posters, Norman Rd, Greenwich, 198
Real Sounds of Africa, poster, Deptford High St, Deptford, Lewisham, 1986
Posters, High Rd, Leytonstone, Waltham Forest, 1989
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