{"id":2876,"date":"2024-07-02T17:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2024-07-02T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:17:17","slug":"two-more-murals-spotted-28th-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/07\/two-more-murals-spotted-28th-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more murals spotted 28th June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more murals in Preston.\u00a0 Both viewable for the delight of train travellers.\u00a0 \u00a0Although one isn’t new.<\/p>\n

This first one appears new and can be seen from a train inbound from Blackpool.\u00a0 Four o’clock low when you see the docks.\u00a0 Blanche Street, behind the Wheatsheaf pub, Water Lane.<\/p>\n

This is almost on a par with the mural ‘Mother’ for skill and meaning and painted by the same artist, Shawn Sharpe.<\/p>\n

As a first thought binding Preston’s cotton mill heritage to the workers at the mill and the hand that picked the cotton.<\/p>\n

As another thought, a feminist feel perhaps.\u00a0 The dungaree wearing lady has a 1940s land girl style, representing the part women played in the mills and fields since industrialisation began.\u00a0 The mill is Tulketh Mill with it’s iconic chimney and tower, now a call centre.\u00a0 The lady could be Sally, pride of our Alley, hard working, tired and strong.\u00a0 \u00a0PP, or Proud Preston, with a pink background, traditionally female pink?<\/p>\n

The great thing about this are the multiple themes and interpretations.\u00a0 You could write a book.<\/p>\n

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The link to cotton – a mural in Blanche Street Preston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The second mural has been there quite a while and faces the Railway Station Butler Street entrance on the side of the Station pub.\u00a0 It’s well painted with an urban feel.\u00a0 This one has been done before the recent trend for meaningful and locally themed murals.<\/p>\n

On close inspection it’s very well painted with a lot of detail such as the marking on the cheeks and in the blue rim. Melting on the left and underneath.\u00a0 \u00a0To try to interpret it brings us to fanciful words about the melting of society and global warming when perhaps it’s just an urban feeling.\u00a0 A night out.<\/p>\n

This is the ramblings of an aged gent, open to thoughts.<\/p>\n

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A mural in Butler Street in Preston, facing the railway station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two more murals in Preston.\u00a0 Both viewable for the delight of train travellers.\u00a0 \u00a0Although one isn’t new. This first one appears new and can be seen from a train inbound from Blackpool.\u00a0 Four o’clock low when you see the docks.\u00a0 Blanche Street, behind the Wheatsheaf pub, Water Lane. This is almost on a par with … Continue reading “Two more murals spotted 28th June 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,8,32,1],"tags":[112,111,110,49],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cotton","category-political","category-uncategorized","tag-cotton","tag-mother","tag-murals","tag-preston"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPtnz-Ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}