Perhaps the statue of "the commuter" in Broadgate near London"s
Liverpool Street station might count? Perhaps graffitti in general would
be interesting - though the stuff scrawled or painted in various places
doesn't always have transport relevance. I have the feeling that there
must be large murals with transport themes painted on various derelict
buildings somewhere...
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Roy Killey, MLS ALA Cert Ed
(formerly Academic Liaison Librarian, Design and Communication Systems,
Anglia Polytechnic University; now MPhil/PhD student)
28 Howe Lane,
Nafferton,
Driffield,
East Yorkshire,
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01377 254718
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>From: Ernest Godward <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Contemporary transport industry support of the arts
>Date: Fri, Aug 13, 1999, 15:35
>
>
> A collaboration between railways and the arts was undertaken in the West
> Midlands back in the mid 1980's. The "railway" - I cannot recall the year
> that this happened sponsored art on the line between Birmingham and
> Wolverhampton. It consisted of art by school children - I particularly
> recall a large painting which infilled an arch at Smethwick Rolfe Street
> and more formal pieces of metal sculpture - Horses - galloping through the
> "Black Country". The lineside was tidied up and greened up as part of the
> programme.
>
> I have also seen some sculptures on the platforms whilst passing through
> Brixton Connex South Eastern station. I am not sure of the context in
> which these have been done.
>
> Ernest Godward
>
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