This mural is tucked away in an alleyway between the main thoroughfare and the car park in Liskeard town centre. The photo is of half of it and this half must be twelve feet high and twenty feet wide so the whole thing is massive. I think it’s a shame that it’s not somewhere more visible but I suppose most people park in the car park and so walk past it to get into the town so maybe it’s in just the right spot, who am I to say.

David and I are washing-machine-less at the moment so we are having to take a weekly trip to the launderette to keep our clothes laundered so we’ve been past this tonight after work and on another dreary, dull, misty day, it was one of the most colourful things I’ve seen so that’s why it has ended up here on my PotD.

I really like it even though I’m not usually impressed by ‘art’ because, with a yard of artistic licence, it depicts the heritage of the area well, with the miners on the left, the mine buildings in the background, the library and the railway, all key parts of the history of our new home. It also has so much life to it – everyone depicted looks busy, just like us but often not like the town is now – it’s a bit sleepy on a Saturday afternoon these days when the shops are all shut and only a handful of folks are around. The viaduct in the background is as impressive a structure as I have ever seen as it spans the valley.

Being a bit of a dimwit about such stuff and not having ever observed a train on it, I’m not sure if it still in use or not. What I do know about it is that it is the second such structure and the columns that held up the old one are still there and both look like huge feats of engineering especially given how long ago they were built.

My observations about artistic licence are because the painting is a composite of views from different places and in different directions. I wasn’t sure if it was acceptable to photograph a painting and I’m afraid I can’t credit the artist because I don’t know who the artist was, but I did it anyway and DM says it’s perfectly legal and perfectly acceptable so I’m going to take his word for it.

Last year too, I was glad to be home and the year before, I photographed my moon gazing hare for the first of now three occasions!