Leisure – The Inkwell

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Location : Ordsall Park, Salford, UK

Call it a Green Island in a Sea of Concrete

A good place for a football game

Trees of varying type scatter this wonderous island of Green

swings and climbing frames keep youngsters amused

whilst older kids send footballs into the northern air

as the local wildlife watches on in amusement

around each tree – signs of life

oak

fallen treasures from the Conker Tree and Hazel

Furry sweet chestnuts piled by the tree

(Look out for the Wildlife!)

as juggernauts pass on the nearby road

Four seasons contained on this glorious green

Taking in the sun by a tree in spring and summer

Colours of leaves constantly changing.

Winds of autumn swirling whilst bowlers are playing

Lets release our Kite – and watch its colours fly.

Alphabet

A response to the Daily post Challenge – “Alphabet”

(Photo taken by the Author, Camera used Samsung WB-250)

Salford, 15th January 2016.

The picture you see is a Mural , created by the artist Walter Kershaw. It’s not the original, The original was taken down and replaced by the Trafford Park Development Corporation when I was in my teens. The second edition, whilst the building it was on was still being maintained by the corporation hung on the wall with pride for many years – until some of the industries that sponsored it moved out of town.

If you head to Old Trafford to see the football its still on display there – a memorial to the industry that once dominated the area. A pictorial A-Z of Northern Industry. Some firms are still there, the Delivery and Haulage firms as well as the food and chemical plants and you can see them as you travel around the industrial park. Rank Hovis has a factory opposite the northern branch of the Imperial War Museum – which itself is on the old site of storage silos from the second world war

And if you wander where your Morning Cornflakes come from – they’re most likely to have come from the Large Kelloggs factory in the centre of the park.

Both my Father and Grandfather worked at the MF Industrial works on Barton Dock Road, which has since passed over to Kelloggs since the work moved elsewhere in Europe. The Mural fondly remembers the factory though – as the vehicle the works produced appears on the picture alongside the company logo of the time. A fond memory of the works car park comes to mind – where the diggers were proudly on show in the docking bays. At Christmas any remaining diggers would be decorated brightly in Christmas lights

The building the mural hangs on – once a storage facility for the docks – has also undergone some changes – as it’s become a nightclub venue – strange but true.