Urban Archaeology

I MMXX a tie to the past using an old numerical system to tell you the year and maybe the time II On a mission to bring Modernity the diggers uncovered Tesserae made from local clay as architects called the uni and builders downed tools for the day III They found some old spearheads, made …

Time Team 2117

Digging Up Your Digs Amongst the mass of paper the tools of this man’s trade old typewriter – style laptop and camera – 1990s grade Books – you’d call them classics Kipling, Hawks, Horwood, and Fforde ? Sharing a space with this writer I’m sure its a kind of reward Doodles and paintings a plenty conserved …

Billy the Conqueror

Conquer Conker by Inky – created in painter essentials Could it be fate, that at 11.06 a new king of the schoolyard was crowned ? In a Hastings school conquest with the town folk watching Harry saw his hopes and dreams shatter into a hundred different pieces over the tarmac floor But unlike his namesake …

Standing Statues

A tale of the old cargo cranes that once stood proud by Ontario Basin on Salford Quays. They stood side by side On the edge of the basin Dressed in their regal blue The sky above as clear as day With the sun reflecting their noble form in shadow. Once giants of the waters edge …

The Field Gun

A poem about the Field Gun, that fired the first shot of World war I. Normally on display at Imperial War Museum North, in Trafford, It’s currently on tour around the commonwealth as part of World War I Centenary Celebrations. The Field Gun, Currently on a Worldwide tour commemorating World War 1, pictured at its regular …