Steeped in History

[steepholm]

I've lost count of how many streets claim to be Britain's steepest, but Vale St in Bristol is one of them - and that's the setting of Banksy's latest masterwork (photo courtesy of Ayako, who lives nearby).

Comments

[heleninwales]

Is the new Banksy going to cause trouble for the owner of the house, or are people in Bristol so blase about Banskys that people won't flock to see it?

[steepholm]

Hard to say. The one he did for Valentine's day was vandalised in short order, but maybe this will feel better. The local paper today carried a report about how it had "brought the street together."

[heleninwales]

The one in Port Talbot caused people to flock there from all over, caused congestion, cost the council money and ended up creating bad feeling over a gallery that was supposed to house it. Possibly it would have been better if it had been vandalised. It would have made the point without turning into a problem when the wall became worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

[steepholm]

I already have to revise my previous comment (in which, by the way, "feel" should have been "fare"): apparently the owner of the house, who was due to exchange contracts next week, has just pulled out of the sale. Not exactly calculated to cause good feeling!