Battersea/Vauxhall/PatMore London Hall of Fame R.I.P.
The Battersea Hall of Fame was a major illegal Graffiti Hall Of Fame in the dark depths of South London from the early 90's to around 2002, not everyone knew about it but many people painted there. It is a series of huge train Track support walls that rose above the junk dealers in Nine Elms, Battersea opposite the Patmore Estate Drury House, on Stewarts Road.
Early 1990's
Dice & Gasp TSM 1994 Photo courtesy of Imerse ID
"PatMore estate SW8, the home of TSM since 1971!!!" - Dice
Color 1993 Photo courtesy of Imerse ID
"I remember Color doing this just after i got done for being Dice, he bombed everywhere Dise is innocent!. He went and racked some homestyles from Texas homecare in Wandsworth, and freestyled this on the wasteground. It was summer '93 i think." - Dice
Juliet by Color 1993 Photo courtesy of Imerse ID
"Juliet" Color's misses. He'd just got together with her, so he was doing a lot of Juliet pieces including a top-to bottom wholecar on a northern line all in buntlacks! lol. Give him retrospective props....He did this one on his jacks, when battersea was hot, all racked paint from Texas homecare in Wandsworth again! He also wrote "New" for a year or two, also did a few New district lines." - Dice
The late 1990's
Zomby 1999? Photos Photo courtesy of Band DDS
Bozo DDS 1999? Photos courtesy of Band DDS
The early 2000's
2002
Gehad & Nek (Greece) 2002
Neas DPM 2002
Boer DBS 2002
Gehad 2002
Shucks One ID & Neas DPM 2002
Gehad 2002
Tracksiders 2002
Gehad & Aeon SDM 2002
Shucks One ID Trackside Throw-up 2002
At the end alot of people were getting arrested there. One day as we were climbing through the fence to scope it out, we saw a bunch of writers getting bagged by British Transport Police. That day Neas told us about another Hall Of Fame not far, so he took us to Wandsworth instead, and the rest is history....
It is a gated business now
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