Category: IWM North

• Poppies (on Remembrance Day)

  

  bringing a spot of colour to the green lawn with a second task fulfilled a reminder of all those who’ve served in war and have passed or been killed keeping a promise made long ago – we shall remember all and keep a moments silence after the buglers call

  inkdropk

  13 Nov 2022

  IWM North, Monuments, War

  Memorial, Poetry, Poppies, Rememberance, Sunday, War

• Poppies return

  #rememberance #poppies Something grand has fallen softly on the floor of the war museum numbers of red poppies fall down from a point in the sky you may ask – why ? to remember those on flanders field and other battles now revealed now tumbled down to museum floor and remembered – the fallen – […]

  inkdropk

  10 Feb 2022

  IWM North, Memorial, Poetry

  battles, Dead, died, Fallen, IWM North, Manchester, Poetry, Poppies, Rememberance, Trafford, War

• Squadron

  A write club acrostic, written by inky. #Imperialwarmuseum #Airfix #Planes #Squadron #Military #Aircraft Sat atop a great height quite a few planes, old and new used to being in hangars, have found a home by the waters of a canal definitely a peacetime operation red arrows escorting a Spitfire veteran and other D-Day participants – […]

  inkdropk

  2 Aug 2020

  Art, History, IWM North, Military, Museums, Poetry

  Aircraft, Airfix, Duxford, Flight, Hangars, Imperialwarmuseum, London, Military, Models, North, Planes, Quickbuild, Squadron, writeclub

• History

  #FOWC #History Heralds wrote tales down in books, while in caves, our ancestors painted the tales on walls some documenting the building of great monuments then others, telling tales of the horrors of war of course, the stories that remain are the ones in the books retold by scholars for minds of a different age, […]

  inkdropk

  17 Feb 2020

  IWM North, Museums, Schooldays

  Children, History, tales, War

• Achievement

  #poetry #learning #expectation Salford 16th February A piece on school visits Three coaches rolled up in the car park One blue, one black, one green Passing auntie, the football and the shops Traffic jams were no fun Or Waiting for the man with the sign to Pass go from stop There were grumbles getting off […]

  inkdropk

  16 Feb 2020

  Acrostic, IWM North, Museum, Poetry

  Car, Children, expectation, Field Gun, Greet, Guide, Gun, Introduction, Learning, meet, Museums, objects, Plane, Poetry, School, Schools

• Recipe for Learning

  

  Salford 5th February 2020 A tale of a meet and greeter at IWM North, Manchester Take a good handful of young minds and interesting artifacts from a fire engine to a British tank under some really unusual lighting give them a tale of a teapot smashed and hold their attention with items in a display […]

  inkdropk

  5 Feb 2020

  IWM North, Poetry

  attention, Greet, handling, helmets, IWM, IWM North, Jet, Learning, Manchester, meet, Museum, objects, Plane, Salford, Schools, Table, Teapot, Trafford

• Octpowrimo – Day 22 – Broken pieces

  

  #Octpowrimo #Brokenpieces Imperial War Museum North, Manchester UK (via the Inkwell), 22nd October 2019 How does someone express the act of war ? take you through a hundred years and tell that tale – that no one else can tell anymore. The man with a vision took a thing for brewing his cuppa and changed […]

  inkdropk

  22 Oct 2019

  Architecture, IWM North, Military, Museum, Poetry

  Air, Art Gallery, broken, building, Earth, hammer, History, Imperial War Museum, IWM North, Metal, North, octpowrimo, Pieces, Quays, Salford, Shard, Steel, Tea, Teapot, Trafford, Vision, War, Water

• Challenge 30 – No17

  

  Behind the scenes 1st February 2019 A couple of Shots from the Lens of my Nikon Camera The First shot – taken at IWM Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, Taken from under the wing of a Lancaster Bomber. The Second Shot….setup of experimental shots with BASIC Clicks, capturing Water Movement. This shot was a bit of a […]

  inkdropk

  1 Feb 2019

  IWM North, Museums, Photography

  BASIC, behindthescenes, Bomber, Cambridgeshire, Challenge 30, Duxford, Group, IWM, Light, Photography, Plane, Reflector, Running, Salford, Setup, Water, Wing

• Poppy Hospital

  

  #Craft #Museum #Poppy #Damage IWM North, Manchester 17th November 2018 From time to Mother nature has been at the Implanted ceramics by the canalside X-tra ceramic poppies have had to be brought in Even barriers – and broken ones have to be sent to the poppy hospital Damage repaired with Slip and Glue (and more […]

  inkdropk

  17 Nov 2018

  Acrostic, Art, Arts, IWM North, Museums, Poetry

  Art, Ceramics, Craft, Damage, imperial, Museum, North, Poppy, Remembrance, War

• Tending the poppies

  

  IWM North, Trafford, Manchester , 5th October 2018 #octpowrimo A year to remember else everyone forgets the sacrifice of those who joined up fighting for king and country each one now a memory flowing down from the earth a century later

  inkdropk

  9 Oct 2018

  IWM North, Poetry, Poppy, Remembrance

  IWM North, Poetry, Poppies, Prose, Rememberance