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Spotted this Banksy only recently, & photographed it on the 13th of July, perhaps this Urban graffiti was inspired by the St Pauls riots @ Bristol.

I was living in Streatham S.London when the Brixton riots erupted a little time later, & clearly recall sneaking through a Police cordon with my Canon AE-1 the following morning. Practically all the high street shop windows were smashed in, & many goods were looted. Also there was a smouldering gap between a row of terraced houses down a back street where a unattended fire had totally gutted a building. Another vivid memory was the sight of blood, & clumps of black curly hair in front of a smashed shop window.

Further riots followed in Hansworth @ Birmingham, Toxteth @ Liverpool, & Tottenham @ N.London where isolated PC Keith Blakelock was hacked to death!

Americans will probably remember this decade as Thatchers golden years. :o) I find the white teddy bear throwing the petrol bomb quite intriguing. ;o)