by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2017 | History & Memories
Here’s an ancient photo, the me of here and now impressed at how, in a frugal time, those mums (other mums, I mean, more clued up, more ambitious than my own) contrived red Indians, two cowboys and a tiny bride – half- familiar faces, grinning or else gawping out from...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2017 | History & Memories
Aunt Maud, who’d never slept a night away from 4 Wharf Street, two up two down, rented, close to where they piled the coal from Bellerton and Sneyd – reads only columns of the Evening Sentinel’s Births, Marriages and Deaths, her lips laboriously shaping names she’d...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2014 | History & Memories
Smallthorne Smallthorne bred and Smallthorne born We move away but homeward drawn Each photo paints not just words But feelings felt, sights seen, sounds heard Places and people gone and those still around Each building, alleyway a new playground From a childhood not...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2013 | History & Memories
The contractors came to wreck And to pillage, Men with hard hats have demolished My village. Men who were swinging great big sledge hammers, Big yellow’ dozers with hydraulic rammers. Pushing and pulling and groaning With strain, Why do they cause so many This...
