Street Art

[booze and cake]

Bedtime at @AndyRM's?

 

[AndyRM]

Bedtime at @AndyRM's?
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How do you know where I live?!

 

[booze and cake]

Another new one on Brick Lane

And not far away on Princelet St.....

 

[growingvegetables]

And not far away on Princelet St.....

King Street, I get; Queen Street, Princes Street, etc etc.

But "Princelet Street"? Strange - insulting a prince by naming a street for him?

 

[AndyRM]

King Street, I get; Queen Street, Princes Street, etc etc.

But "Princelet Street"? Strange - insulting a prince by naming a street for him?

Maybe he's just really small?

George (?) would be a princelet I reckon.

 

[booze and cake]

@growingvegetables, princelet does seem to be a derogatory term. I'm currently on a train to Birmingham but a brief Google tells me it did used to be called princes street and was renamed princelet street in June 1893 but i cannot see an explanation as to why. Queen Victoria was on the throne then, and she was famously hobbit sized, but her oldest son and later king Edward 7th was an average 5ft 8inches. He was pretty widely liked so as Andy suggests I guess it was named after one of the George's, the 3rd being mad and George 4th was regarded as a bit of a useless fop, don't know how tall he was though..I always think of Hugh Laurie playing him in Blackadder.

 

[Reynard]

And not far away on Princelet St.....
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A Sphynx cat! Was wondering when you'd turn up some cat ones...

 

[booze and cake]

On my way up to Wales today I had 30 minutes between arriving at Birmingham Moor Street station until I had to be on another train from Birmingham New Street. Thanks to having a bike I managed to bag this lot and sprint back to the station and board the train a minute before departure. It felt like a low budget TV challenge with the countdown clock music going on in my head. I'm quite impressed at my haul for just 30 mins in Brum, and a new city added to the collection Some more cats for @Reynard too
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Some artists I recognised from works in London, firstly a JimmyC
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And a Louis Masai
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And plenty of other good stuff
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A great Muhammad Ali one and an annoyingly parked car
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And a bit of a mystery to finish. The following image I saw in two separate locations in different colours. Is this a famous person from Birmingham or elsewhere, anyone recognise it?
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[Reynard]

Love the one with the statues of Bastet! Thanks so much @booze and cake

The silhouette / collage of the WW1 cavalry officer really tickles my fancy too. The outline is very much reminiscent of some of the recruitment and military posters of the day.

 

[Fnaar]

 

[Reynard]

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[nickyboy]

Another country for the thread...saw this on the beach in Montevideo, Uruguay today. Apols for the rather shonky photo. The squid was done by the charmingly named "bastardo"

 

[SteveF]

A micro one near Covent Garden..

 

[growingvegetables]

A micro one near Covent Garden..

Brilliant!

 

[nickyboy]

They're keen on their street art in Buenos Aires. A quick stroll around the neighbourhood yielded these