It is art and an expression of social/political thought which should be saved.
What is to you, and do you have a favourite piece ? Have you ever scratched, or written anything onto a public wall? Toilet humour ?
Let's be having your own special graffito - get creative, this is the space
You know you really, really wanna let it all hang out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti
The Guardian seems to be on a roll re WW1 and first-hand testimonials...
by Maev Kennedy.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m ... ond-castle
In 1916 a conscientious objector, condemned by a tribunal for refusing to serve in the first world war, took up a pencil and very neatly explained his plight on the whitewashed wall of his cell in Richmond Castle in Yorkshire.
“‘I Percy F Goldsbrough of Mirfield was brought up from Pontefract on Friday August 11 1916 and put in this cell for refusing to be made into a soldier,” he wrote.
English Heritage, which now cares for the beautiful medieval castle, will launch a project on Friday to record, research and preserve the fragile walls that became a unique archive of rare first-hand testimonial from men who refused to join the war, as well as thousands of other inscriptions added later
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“The only War which is worth fighting is the Class War. The Working Class of this Country have no quarrel with the Working Class of Germany or any other Country. Socialism stands for Internationalism. If the workers of all countries united and refused to fight, there would be no war,” one prisoner wrote.
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RL, one of the few identified prisoners – Richard Lewis Barry, a lace factory worker from Derbyshire – wrote in 1916: “You might as well try to dry a floor by throwing water on it, as try to end this war by fighting.” A 1939 writer, a soldier from the local regiment, added his initials a few inches away, but carefully preserved RL’s thoughts
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