Monday, July 09, 2012

Monday Murals/Doorways: The Thirsty Scholar

The Thirsty Scholar is a bar and night club situated under one of the railway arches by Oxford Road station. The area around New Wakefield Street has a lot of graffiti/street art. The council are threatening to remove it, hence the "Save our Street Art" posters.

Chrissy Brand featured one of the New Wakefield Street murals last Monday on Mancunian Wave.

This is one of a series of photographs I took on a walk last Monday around the route of the viaduct linking Piccadilly to Oxford Road making some interesting discoveries along the way. An illustrated account of that walk can be found on the Geograph blog.

A contribution to Monday Murals.

7 comments:

  1. I think any spot under the arches needs a bit of a mural to brighten it up.

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  2. it looks like a fun place to be. i like the looks of the artwork...i hope they don't remove it. i don't like people just spraying graffiti on public property but this is nice, in a place where it is encouraged!

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  3. I agree with Tanya, this looks nice and should be able to stay on the wall!

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  4. Thanks for the citing Gerald ;-) I have some older New Wakefield murals that I'll post in future too if you are going for the current ones- there are many to choose from, or no harm if we overlap ;-)

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  5. Why don't councils get it? The art is an asset to the place. A bar under a road station is just cool beyond words, add art and you have something very special.

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  6. I love this use of the under arch areas and the art just makes it better!

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  7. I'm not sure I'm a scholar, but thirsty I can do. Would love to have a beer here and look at the street art around me. Such a cool concept. Hope to see more street art from this walk you took. Thanks, Gerald, for contributing to Monday Mural.

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