#Fowc #Advance #Museums A group of eager young minds Dropped in on a historical building or two today Very interested in taking in the displays And getting a feel of some real items used of the time Now , anyone could tell their enthusiasm was building as one or two led a Charge up the …
Category Archives: Museums
Recipe for Learning
Salford 5th February 2020 The Fire pump issued to the Ferranti Works in World War II 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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
Poppies
Wave – On display outside Imperial War Museum North , Manchester (p) Brian F Kirkham Sept 2018 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 …
The Inkwell 