Comments on: Bile Beans, again

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:14:48 +0000

I agree with Helenography.
The repainting in my opinion does not mean anything and looks completely fake. Wall murals are ephemeral and of their time. It is advertising, like shredded poster boards which have a beauty in their degeneration. The images can be recorded and we can look forward to a new generation of wall art?

By: Helenography

Helenography — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:58:21 +0000

Great post. I’m not a fan of restoration to be honest, I’d rather see what the original sign painter intended, even if it is mostly faded on the wall. It is lovely to have the sign still visible but it would have been even better if they’d kept to the original look of the sign with the red line and the comma missing.

It might not be correct but it is what the people at the time did which I think is more interesting than making it ‘right’.

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:55:16 +0000

Excellent - thank you! The mystery solved!

By: A

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:24:35 +0000

I was actually present when that comma was painted on by an irate fellow student at St. John’s in 1998, she got fed up of walking past it every day and decided to correct it with her own paint..

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:09:25 +0000

I’m glad Flavia was’nt my English teacher at Nunthorpe GRAMMAR ’scule’during WW2,would have preferred to be elsewhere,like an air raid shelter!

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:30:34 +0000

A quick Google confirmed that this is the weirdest example of ‘comment spam’ I’ve ever seen. Presumably attracted here by the word ‘comma’ in the text above …