No Sign of Talens Billboard

All this talk of Eckersley’s earlier this week made me recall the old Talens mural that was once painted on the side of the current building.

I went to college not far from Eckersley’s, and this was the closest art supply shop to the campus. Sometimes my friends and I used to go on a supply run, and we would walk along the railway line to the store.

You could always see the enormous Talens billboard from a distance, painted on the wall facing the railway cutting. It was the same character as in this vintage poster, but he was a little more swashbuckling. If I remember correctly, he wielded a brush that swooshed the large red tail of the ‘s’ across the base of the advertisement.

I was quite sad when I saw one day that they had painted over it, and couldn’t even find a sign of it on the internet. It’s such a pity when these nostalgic old landmarks disappear with the times.