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Bring back our walrus mural
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Help us welcome visitors and bring our beloved Forest Hill station sign, with its unique walrus adornment, back to its original state
The Forest Hill station sign, painted under the bridge on the A205 on Waldram Place, was chosen and paid for by our local community, and painted by local artist Lionel Stanhope.
For many years it welcomed the thousands of people who come through our area by train, bus, car, bike or foot and stood out as a friendly greeting in a world plastered with advertisments instead of art.
Sadly, the weather, the traffic and also vandals, have taken their toll. The mural is tarnished, hard to read, covered in graffiti tags and moss, and really needs to be repainted.
Unfortunately, as this was a community project, no organisation has been responsible for maintaining or recovering this street art, so the Forest Hill Society is offering to take this on. We're looking to clean the wall, repaint the sign again, not just touch it up, and give it a protective varnish so it will last for many more years. We've already been in touch with Lionel and with Network Rail and we're ready to move ahead with painting, probably in April.
To do this, we need to raise the funds for the cleaning and repair, repainting and protection, and to create some materials to celebrate the event and thank our supporters.
The repainting alone will cost close to £2000, and the cleaning and repairs will be on top of this. We would also like to raise funds to pay for a commemorative newspaper or newsletter that will include the names of all supporters of this campaign - something they'll be able to keep and treasure.
The community originally rallied together in 2018 to make this mural happen. Now we hope we can work together to give it a new lease of life so it can last many more decades.
This project successfully funded on 18th March 2026