Graffiti

Egginton Bridge

Our local routes have suffered from serious graffiti attacks over the last week, firstly at Racecourse Sidng on R672, the Breadsall Greenway and secondly at Mickleover, Etwall, and Egginton on R54, the Mickleover Greenway. Most of this has been on brick walls where it is very difficult to remove.
John Swan and Phil Harries have been struggling to remove graffiti from the wall at Racecourse Siding and have now called in the Derby Streetpride team to assist.

Yesterday, at Egginton, Phil Harris and I had some success in obliterating this graffiti on the bridge walls. Fortunately, the walls had traces of soot remaining from the days of steam, and wire brushes were good for removing this
and some of the graffiti.

A516 Bridge.
 Identical graffiti to Egginton but black instead of white.

We then applied black paint over what remained, and finally threw dry soil onto the wet paint. This was quite effective in restoring a more natural look.


The photographs will be passed on to the Police, since it may be possible to identify the perpetrators from their scrawlings. Clearly there is a fish theme, perhaps a name or nickname.

We were not able to clear the graffiti from the A516 bridge as the walls there are is smooth concrete, painted overall with (supposedly) anti-grafiti paint and this needs a special
technique known best to Mavis Ratcliffe
who is away at present.

Egginton

Egginton

The daubings at Mickleover were overpainted with red undercoat which was good match for the red brickwork.