The Horse Fair mosaic has suffered from decades of water damage, the 20th Century Society says.
Campaigners are hoping to safeguard an under-threat mural on a Birmingham roundabout.It has suffered from decades of water damage and anBut the 20th Century Society said it was a historically important artwork and has applied to have it listed.
Sympathetic cleaning, digital recording and careful relocation or reinstallation would save it for future generations, the 20th Century Society said.The mural, created by artist Kenneth Budd, depicts the centuries-old custom of trading horses in the area But the original materials and plaster used in the construction at the time were not suitable to withstand more than 50 years of damp and water getting into the artwork, the report for the council said.
His view was his father's mural was "beyond reasonable repair" and too expensive to restore, the report said.
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