Category: Museums
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The terrace at No3
#Octpowrimo #Cobbledstreets #England #Northern #Salford #Lancashire A piece of poetry by inky, based on the terraced house on Lark Hill Place. A restored Victorian Street in Salford’s Museum and art gallery. Old building by cobbles, Oak table , and chairs Copper kettle boiling on the stove near to the stairs Fruit from the Grocers, cutup […]
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Gratis
#Fowc #Gratis Sunday 16th June 2016 Gratuities gratefully accepted, but Really, the entrance is free As you wonder around amongst The artifacts, in the grand building you entered In fact, by dropping a few pence in the box – you might Save the costs of preserving the items you walk around
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Long day
Early morning wake up call Cereal and toast Start of the day To remember most Memorials made In churches and chapels And then to museums Remembering all those alike Remembering those Who one hundred years past Fought for their country First to the last
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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
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Poppies
Red poppies are flowing down the top of the earth shard of IWM North Each poppy was created to remember those who fell in the war to end all wars Memorial to the host of soldiers who went to the front Expecting to be home by Christmas Men not only from the home nations, But […]
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Mathilda
IWM North, September 2018 an acrostic poem by inkdrop, on the newest arrival in the Main exhibition space of IWM North in Trafford…. Made up at the Locomotion works in Bolton A Machine to bring terror to the enemies eyes Thundering across land and desert Hot on the tail of any enemy Infantry In time, […]
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Bee Industrious
25th August 2018 #beeinthecity #manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Castlefield, Manchester Busy little bee sits in his own little world Among flowers and scents and colour working over the flower beds where the people wait for the train industrious little fellow he is