Eyes on the Streets

and feets on the ground. Graffiti, street art and murals seen while wandering the streets and alleys of our colourful world.

Petty Harbour

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Mary C

This is one of at least two murals in the village of Petty Harbour (on the east coast of Newfoundland). Like many of the historic murals in Newfoundland, it shows locals hard at work in the fishing industry – out in boats catching fish, on shore cleaning fish, maintaining nets, etc.

mural on a garage door of the Harbour Authority Office, Canadian flag flying above building, mural is a fishing village scene with fisherman cleaning fish, catching fish in nets, on boats, and on shore

Battery history mural, St. John’s Newfoundland

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Mary C

Painted in 2008, this mural depicts life in the early days of the fishing communities of Newfoundland. It is found on a retaining wall on Battery Road, one of the narrow hilly roads in the Outer Battery neighbourhood.

woman walks past battery road mural, black and white historic scenes and characters

part of a mural in grey tones, history, two women in period clothing outdoors, collecting a pile of flattened dried fish

part of a mural in grey tones, black and white, showing narrow street with two people carrying buckets or pails and another person with a wheelbarrow

man walking on street, walking past a black and white history mural in St. John's Newfoundland

part of a mural, an older man plays an accordion while a woman stands beside him

the back of brown wood house with a retaining wall, concrete, at the bottom, painted with mural with scenes of historic Battery neighbourhood fishing community