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Banksy pledges £10m funding bid to help save Reading Gaol

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Banksy has pledged to sell the stencil that was used to paint the famous image of prisoner Oscar Wilde as he escaped Reading Gaol on a rope made of knotted sheets and a typewriter.

Reading Gaol jail has been described by Karen Rowland of Reading Borough Council as a ‘Mecca’ and an ‘LGBT cultural heritage site’. […] The post Banksy pledges £10m funding bid to help save Reading Gaol appeared first on GCN.

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