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Friday, 10 May 2013

R and R

Last week, on May Day, I found this cryptic symbol sprayed on the pavement next to a bus shelter on Hill Lane in Southampton:


I photographed it mainly because of the shadows, of course.  Then, at the weekend, without realising what I was looking at, I found something very similar in a tunnel under the railway line near Hockley Viaduct outside Winchester:


Is it an "R"? Or a "12"? Or is it the common symbol for some infrastructural object  -- pipes or wires, maybe?  It seems too simple, discreet and utilitarian to be someone's grafitti "tag".  I'm intrigued.

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1 comment:

  1. Zouk Delors10 May 2013 at 21:34

    It's the internationally-recognised symbol for
    " Walk-in ante-natal clinic this way", innit?

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