Another date in the wall

As we went into Oxford last month I spotted some writing on a wall. We'd gone past before I had a chance to get my camera out, so I resolved to photograph it when we came back.


I almost missed it again, it was so faint. And impossible to see on the unenlarged photo above. But there it is, inscribed into the cement rendering, while setting, at the foot of a canalside wall:

MAY 1ST 1956.

C.N.R. (?) HOLMES.

&

MATE

L.H.W. WEBB

Wow! That graffiti - if I can call it that - was done before I was born! Presumably messrs. Holmes and Webb were two of the builders responsible for the block of flats above.