Muriels

I knew it would happen: I recently commented on someone else's blog that we don't find many murals in England. Of course I started seeing them everywhere! And every time I see one I think of dear old Hilda Ogden, a character on British TV programme, Coronation Street. She had a particularly tasteless mountain scene covering one of the walls in her back room. She always lovingly referred to it as her "muriel". 

So here's a "muriel" from a children's play area in Letchworth.

The tree above, a community arts project also in Letchworth, doesn't look too remarkable till you get up close and realise....

....that it's composed of painted pebbles that have somehow been glued to the wall.

On a farm shed in Longstanton I found....

.....it appears to be entirely constructed from spanners, chains, cogs and such like.

Not quite a mural, though definitely a painting on the wall, is this re-creation of twentieth century advertising on a pub in Histon...

The whole pub is covered in similar painting and may well one day feature in its own post.

But I've been saving the best till last...

It stands right next to the Cambridge Guided Busway and was once an old railway station. It's the work of two artists known as Mattheus Bailon (from Brazil) and Dr Zadok. Got to be worth a close-up..

Take care.