Bit of a history trip on this one. This wall on Arley Hill looks fairly plain now…
…and still has graf being painted out on it.
But back in the day it was quite different.
These photos are from spring 2000, when this used to be on there, ‘All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain’, taken from Blade Runner.
Given the amount of graf that used to appear there, this piece added a bit of humour.
Probably the most ‘famous’ thing that was there though was this Banksy rat.
The rat was down the bottom, with large splashes of coloured paint high on the wall above it, as if it had splashed them there. It’s gone now of course, but you can still see where it was, next to the drainage hole at the bottom of the wall in this picture.
Which means, technically, this paint still on the pavement is one of the ‘original Banksys’ still left in Bristol.
Have seen a photo of the whole thing somewhere online but can’t find it now. Here are a couple of more shots of it though, from Malfeasance and the Bristol Beat site.
