Specialist

#fowc #specialist Skilled technician Positioned on the shore Especially for when the tide was coming in Construction ? more Demolition Instigated to save the rest of the team getting soaked As the water came up the beach Like lightning, but was Instantly disappointed Sandy structures on the beach Taken down by a pair of bright …

Abandoned (Derelict)

#FFFC #Abandoned #Derelict #Brokenwindows with thanks to Aron Jäger@unsplash.com for providing the Image I remember the weeks before the builders moved in the children, were now learning – in bright shiny blocks up the road in the next district whilst the old building sat – a nest for the birds and a target for vagabonds …

Ghost Structures

The old gasometers of Liverpool StreetIn Order to make Salford look more like townthey’re tearing the old gasometers downresplendent in their pastel bluetheir removals caused a bit of a do’as money men wave around their cashtrying to make the city look flashMacolls Ghosts flies around in disgustas they tore at the giants covered in rustand …

Detonate

Detonate Salford 29th May 2017 An acrostic for todays daily post from Inky. Dibnah, a man known for knocking down chimneys even as the foundations burned…he watched today, it’s oh so different as charges are laid out in a pattern neat in stacks and co ordinated in a way the building collapses in on itself …

Gone

Salford, 3rd January 2017 in response to the prompt Gone The streets I knew have long since gone covered up by flagstones and tarmac. Veterans of those halcyon days now sit broken tween two sets of fenceposts   Communities cast off to towering islands boxed up accommodation piled up to the sky   Old friends …

Building site

Construct Two kids in a classroom Playing with their toys Just a normal day for the girls and boys One quietly builds a house with coloured blocks whilst the other plays with his van with silver wheels and shocks Walls they go up quickly two red, two blue of course with roof of yellow on …