Deptford Community Bus Stop

WATCHING PAINT DRY

It's very rare that the Crosswhatfields editorial team (ahem!) get to meet up so we were able to make the most of the bus shelter opposite Wavelengths as a windbreak when we bumped into each other last Friday.  As luck would have it Church Street was closed to traffic so not only was the bus shelter much quieter than normal but we even got the opportunity to watch the road sign painters painting road signs.  We were highly impressed with the speed and craftsmanship needed to walk sideways while steadily pouring quick-dry paint into a bottomless tin and ending up with neat lettering. 

It was actually quite touching to see how many people stopped to warn us that the stop was out of service.  That big London does have its social side after all - first it was the workmen, then passers-by

LUST STOP...?

PUB STOP...?

Ah, RUST STOP....!

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WATCHING PAINT FADE

 

I'd forgotten that there was an almost completely faded sign under the railway bridge.  I stopped to see if I could decipher the text but it was too far gone for me to get most of it.  Just odd words like ''industrial storage'' which must have been advertising arches to let in what was then Mechanics Path before they booted the mechanics out, stuck up a gate and upped the rents for tenants possessed of greater resolution .  It looks like there's a trace of an 0800 number lower down but that would mean that those numbers have been around far longer than seems likely.  Does anybody remember?

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ARBORICIDE?

Ok, this is a wandering post, but to be fair, we've only wandered 50 yards at the very most.  Here's another bit of fadery, this time a weather-beaten, disintegrating paper sign on the railings next to Crossfields Street.  Does anybody know who's been killing or harming trees?  It looks like it's been up for a fair amount of time.

The full text was:

STOP

WE KNOW WHO

YOU ARE. THE 

POLICE WILL BE PHONED

IT IS ILLEGAL TO KILL/

HARM TREES. DECENT PEOPLE

WANT TO KEEP THIS PLACE

                  FOR THEIR DOGS

Oddenda: 

1)Despite the post saying it was posted by Sue, it wasn't, it was posted by Marmoset - I think the purposeless meandering style may already have given that away.

2)  Watching paint dry....It might seem odd but newly tarmacked roads give rise to grateful posts on cycling forums...