Sprayed on the wall of the Astra Cinema, Barrow In Furness on August 30 1969, this would have been seen by everyone who headed up Holker Street to Barrow Soccer until the cinema came down in 2003.
I photographed a lot of Barrow graffiti in the 90's. There were lots about the poll tax. They were landmarks; everyone knew of something, somewhere that was worth recording.
I asked Fulham FC's fansite if anyone knew who painted this one on the occasion of Fulham's only visit to Barrow (so far..) in the old Third division, 51 years ago.
These three Emails are from Frank..
I
may be the graffiti artist concerned I remember going to that game
and it might be my handiwork, we come overnight from London arriving
at about 6 o’clock in the morning so we had best part of 9 hours to
kill before the game, it’s all a bit vague but I’m pretty sure
they was some Fulham graffiti up by the ground as well, as to the
game I knew we lost 3-1 but can remember anything about the game, I
do remember falling asleep in the second half it had been such a long
day and night, as to the graffiti our next away game was Bristol
Rovers we sprayed Fulham on a white wall outside a bus garage, they
might be some others but it’s all very vague as it been such
a long time
...Nice
that my vague recollections are good for you!!! I just looked up the
attendance for that was 5665, was that the average for that season? I
at the time was in my first job I was as a compositor for a rubber
stamp firm, setting up type to be moulded into rubber stamps,
I lived
in roehampton a bus ride away from Fulham, that’s not bad
attendance for the conference, I suppose the town is full of exiled
Mancs and scousers!! I’ve had a season ticket for the last 20 odd
years, don’t do many away games, especially not in the premiership
only new ground like the emirates and the London stadium, .went to
Turin and Hamburg for the final during the europa league run and the
playoff final in 2018
...I
think a lot of my memories of that game are lost in the mist of time,
I travelled to the game with a best mate that introduced to the
love of Fulham about 4 years previous, I was 16 when we went to
Barrow, I think we left Euston about 10 o’clock the previous night,
I unfortunately can’t remember what we did in the time before the
game, maybe that why the graffiti came thro sheer boredom, as I said
in the original post I’m pretty sure there some by the ground as
well, I seem to recall there was quite a lot of Fulham there, it’s
that new ground bug that supporters seem to have, unfortunately my
memories are all a bit vague, don’t recall the return journey at
all, I probably slept all the way!! It probably stayed in my memory
because I came to Barrow once, we as over the years you go to the
same grounds over and over again, do you think your ever get back in
the football league? In the 50 years since that game we’ve had a
cup final a European final lots of relegation lots of promotions
hope your season goes well here’s hoping for another promotion this
season for you and us!!
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