Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

7285. Cumberland Basin

Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

This wonderful piece of graffiti writing got me doing a bit of detective work, which happens when I don’t recognise a particular piece or artist. It took me a while, but I got there in the end to find out that it is by Ahum (obvious once you see it), an artist who has featured in the pages of Natural Adventures under the name of Blimma Blamma.

Wow, It is incredible how wrong you can be sometimes. The piece is by Hire and not by Ahum. I had convinced myself otherwise. I think I might be going slightly mad.

Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

The letters HIRE are beautifully presented, with a fine midline and a deep drop shadow, perfectly offset with an orange bubbly decoration. Something as little different and joyous from Hire.

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I am Stephen. I live in Bristol, UK. I decided to shorten my profile...to this: Wildlife, haiku, travel, streetart, psychogeography and my family. Not necessarily in that order.

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      1. Which when I was reading it backwards trying to make out AHUM I saw the E and the R and then the I and finally the H . . . 😉

        As if it wasn’t hard enough already and then we’ve got bloody writers not keeping to the script ffs . . . 🤣

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