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child friendly urban art on the underpass - claire (9th Oct 2011  21:10:15) does anyone know who is responsible for the lovely urban art on the A3 underpass that leads from london road to Bramshott? It is so clever and looks like it was a commission! Great fun and a real surprise!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Marcus (10th Oct 2011  08:33:11) It's just some Art from local people in liphook and at least its not offensive and rude, its just really cool! more and more keep cropping up down there.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - helen (10th Oct 2011  09:41:58) where do I find the underpass is it the new one one for walkers under the A3 to get to wagonners wells direction and ludshott common?

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - claire (10th Oct 2011  20:56:26) oh no helen .... i am rubbish at directions!! but here goes ...... It isn't a new underpass. walk past ths main Radford park gate on London Rd (heading out of the village) , once past the gate cross over to the other side of the road. walk past the small almost hidden paddock with a sad looking pony in it and on your left hand side you will come to a footpath. This leads to the underpass and if you follow it along you come out at the canadian memorial graves in Bramshott church yard Next time I go that way I will look at the name of the house that the footpath runs along the side of and post it. it really is worth a look , just great fun!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - helen (10th Oct 2011  23:02:32) Thank you I will try and find it!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (11th Oct 2011  08:18:47) Helen, if you've lived in the area a while you will know the route as 'The Hangers'.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - P Weyland (11th Oct 2011  12:16:38) Hopefully they've covered up the obscene graffiti that had been present there for some time before! Incidently, if you cross the London Road at old Radford bridge and enter Radford Park on the footpath left of the river (as you face the park) If you look down under the bridge you will see Liphooks first example of 'urban art' which I know has stood there since 1988.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - claire (11th Oct 2011  18:16:11) learn something everyday .... 27 years in and around liphook and never new that area was called the hangers! It's not part of the Hangers Way is it ?

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Michael (11th Oct 2011  21:06:51) Yes The Hangers! The reason it used to take us up to 2 hours to get home to Liphook from Bramshott Boys School! Some great hide and seek and war games though. Also walking the pipe in Allee's field.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - P Weyland (12th Oct 2011  08:54:35) No, the Hangers Way runs from Queen Elizabeth Country Park to Alton, doesnt touch Liphook.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Diana (13th Oct 2011  12:12:56) Not Hangers Way just THE Hangers. My guess it is an old local name

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (13th Oct 2011  13:32:16) 'The Hangers' is an old local name - there is a postcard of the path in the early part of the last century (where it is called 'the Hanger') but must be much older than that. In Hampshire (and surrounding counties no doubt) a hanger is a small wood on a steep hill. - There are a lot of them about!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Mick (31st Oct 2011  07:59:29) The Hangers at Bramshott. Hangers are woods or forest on the side of a hill or slope. The Hangers of Hampshire are described in William Cobbetts book "Rural Rides" which is still in print some 180years after his death

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - jenny (31st Oct 2011  13:40:27) Having read this thread, we went up to Bramshott through The Hanger the other day and saw this - WHAT an improvement - for years it was always being defaced with the usual unacceptable graffiti which then had to be scrubbed off regularly. The pillars holding up the road also have characters, brightening up what could be boring concrete. Sadly it is "Illegal" but it stops anything else appearing! I hope the Dept. of Transport don't take it off. I believe it is a local young man - Another Baxie!!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - tony m (4th May 2012  19:44:57) I just came through there today for the first time and I have to say the murals are fantastic. Normally I hate graffiti because it lowers the tone of an area but this stuff is inspirational.Whoever did it needs to be congratulated and I strongly recommend a walk through there on the way to Bramshot church. Quite a surprise!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Jay W (5th May 2012  12:01:32) It's great isn't it? I know the junior school children love it when they walk through to the Church - my son took me there especially to show me - we even had to walk the Allee Meadow route so as to see the other side. In my son's opinion the Hangers side leading to the Church is the best! That's what's needed to brighten up the skate park - Haslemere skate park were doing similar when they opened (last year)? All users were invited to decorate .... sadly my other son is not artistic in any way but at least he had a go. If you and your friends had worked on something would you not put peer pressure on others planning to deface it?

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Big Si (5th May 2012  21:35:05) I do have an inkling who is responsible. It wasnt a commission and in fact a couple of the characters were created with the help of some quite small passers by, I believe. If the artist were aware of your very kind comments and suggestions, I feel certain he or she would be entirely delighted, but will probably remain relatively incognito, for reasons that Jenny understands. Whether or not there will be more, is probably in the lap of the Gods of Graffito, but I will attempt to pass on anew your kind thoughts. On his or her behalf, I would like to offer my thanks to all who appreciate the work. It was almost certainly done to brighten up an intimidating corner and bring a smile to the face and a sparkle to the eye. Oh and there were overtures to brighten up other corners and the area around the Library and Bowls Club were on the list, from what I heard. Sadly not to be, it seems. Big Sigh

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Wo (30th Jul 2015  15:18:04) It is worth going to have a look at what is being done there now - lovely gravel paths etc but one path leads up to the A3 between the two bridges that cross the A3 - then where do yo go?!!! Has to cross the river on old pallets which were a bit wobbly!!! Lovely job being done.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Freya (30th Jul 2015  18:39:57) If you got to the left of the Canadian aquaduct bridge and go through the gate near the pony ,you can keep walking under the A3 bridge (where art work is) Keep following the path , which continues through a field. This brings you out at The Hangers. (Church road,Church lane) Walk right after you have climbed over the sty at end of field. ( watch out for sheep, keep dogs on a lead if sheep in field) Follow the road round till you get to Boris Karloff 's old house.( it's the one in the middle of the lane. Garden shaped like a coffin). Turn right just before Boris house , walk up lane till you reach St Mary's church steps. (First set of steps) Walk up the steps and turn right. Walk to Canadian graves. Turn left at the graves and follow the hedged path back to London Road. It brings you out by houses further up the layby. Turn right walk to Canadian Aquaduct bridge. This is where you started. Is it called The Hangers because of the way the trees hang over the lanes. Maybe it was because the Lord of the Manor at Bramshott hung highway men in the tree outside St Mary's church. The big old tree in the triangle . This part of Bramshott is mentioned in the doomsday book. It was the main route from Portsmouth to London. London to Portsmouth. After all They hung people in the Gibbets at Hindhead.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (31st Jul 2015  08:22:49) A hanger or hanging wood is a wood on the side of a steep hill near the top. Hampshire is famous for them!

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (31st Jul 2015  10:05:10) For those interested there is a previous thread on this area of Bramshott - including a scary link showing Boris Karloff's former home! This is the thread 'Blimey!'

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - P Weyland (31st Jul 2015  12:20:31) 'This brings you out at The Hangers. (Church road,Church lane)' Does this path not take you out into Tunbridge Lane rather than Church Lane? You then turn right onto the lane which brings you down to Boris Karloffs old house.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (31st Jul 2015  14:52:32) Yes I think Freya's geography is a bit out. Unless I have misread it, her route does brings you out onto Tunbridge Lane then right up Church Lane to Bramshott church. 'The Hangers' (known so well to former Bramshott School boys!) is the bit after you have gone through the churchyard and are heading back towards the A3. Postcard of 'The Hanger' is on one of the threads somewhere I'm sure.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Freya (31st Jul 2015  16:17:25) P weyland and Liz clearly understood my route. I'm sorry I got church road and church lane mixed up. A Easy mistake to make. Firm slap on wrist for me for not perfectly directing others.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - tony (1st Aug 2015  12:08:26) The Hangars (Church Lane, Rectory Lane and Woolmer Lane) are some great examples of natural sunken lanes in this area, also called 'Holloways', where the road has literally sunk by erosion over hundreds, if not thousands of years and you can see amazing examples of trees growing several metres above you with their intricate root system exposed to the banks. They are increasingly rare (especially where still used as working roads). Most are to be found in the chalks and sands of the Weald in southernmost England and many are under threat from urban development. We're very lucky to have them, they really add to the 'old world' magic of this very special, unique area.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Karina (3rd Aug 2015  18:37:09) These cartoon characters have been embellishing the underpass for some considerable time. I too was puzzled who the artist may be. I would like to also say a big 'Thank you' to those people - from the Liphook Preservation Society I believe - who cleared the old Aquaduct for the benefit of us all and brought a piece of Liphook's history back to life. What about the other piece of old architecture - the Tudor Gate House, which is now inaccessible to the Liphook people as it is part of the gated enclosure behind fence and barbed wire of Bramshot Place. Is that fair? This is part of the local heritage which should be enjoyed by all, does anyone agree?

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (4th Aug 2015  08:21:46) Tony The sunken lanes are not Hangers. There are the Hangers on Freya's route between the churchyard and the A3, there are the famous Hangers at Selbourne plus many others particularly in Hampshire. They are woods on a hillside.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - tony (4th Aug 2015  12:40:45) liz, thanks for pointing out the difference between the Hangers and the sunken lanes, both great in their own rights. I'll make a point now of going looking for those Hangers, can't recall ever noticing them before, but I know the ones in Selbourne at Gilbert White's and they are brilliant.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - liz (4th Aug 2015  14:22:33) Tony Probably not surprising that you have not noticed the 'Hangers' between Liphook and Bramshott as they do stretch the definition a bit! ... But they are on the side of a hill, albeit a small one, and have always been known, rightly or wrongly, as 'The Hangers'.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Elizabeth (22nd Mar 2018  18:12:55) As part of my research into the claims of Green Construct that a new circular walk will be formed if they get permission to build homes on the field where Lucky, the horse lives, I came across this thread which shows that this walk has been used since 2011 at least. (see their newsletter of February 18th which can be found at www.londonroadliphook.co.uk in which Green Construct claim that: “A permissive path, running the full length of the land, will …form a new circular walk”. ) Would anyone who uses this walk regularly be willing to email me on elizabeth@allford.co.uk to let me know roughly how often you use this walk and for how many years you have been using it? By the sounds of it, this path has been used for a long time.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - HJK (29th Mar 2018  23:55:34) I can add to information given previously in this thread regarding the history of 'Hangers' in Hampshire. I read this information at the Curtis Museum in Alton today: "Beech Hangers Between Alton and Petersfield are the East Hampshire Hangers which form past of the western boundry of a geological region of south-east England known as The Weald. The term 'hanger' comes from the Old English 'hangra' meaning a 'wooded slope'. The steepest and more impressive hangers occur on the almost continuous Middle Chalk escarpment between East Meon and Selborne. Beech is now the characteristic tree of these high steep slopes with a dense understanding of yew in places." The museum is worth a visit, it's pretty good. The Haslemere museum is excellent too.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Howold (30th Mar 2018  10:30:59) Elizabeth, We used to use this walk to get too and from Bramshott boys school in the early 60s.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Elizabeth (30th Mar 2018  20:47:24) Howold, Did you walk both sides of the river - the side of Allee's Meadow and the church side?

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Howold (31st Mar 2018  09:52:03) Elizabeth, Yes we used to go both sides, we made an improvised bridge to get over stream, or we walked the 'pipe'!! to get over.

Re: child friendly urban art on the underpass - Elizabeth (31st Mar 2018  13:18:46) Thank you Howold

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