Tag: Salford
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Rainbows
I’ve never thought of the humble raindrop as artistic But as the sun shines down over rainy Salford skies it does something spectacular Using the sun’s rays as its brush : It sets up a palette of seven stunning colours And as White cascades through Violet to red A Colourful Rainbow can be seen overhead. […]
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Opportunity Arises – Praise Be!
I attended mass this morning, having been away after tests in hospital and the holiday in Turkey and have been presented with a bit of a challenge…. “Draw up a web site for the local RC Church and Parish” I had a bit of hindsight on this one to be truthful – as one of […]
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Picking up Radio 3
Headaches… They’re a funny thing!…with all those little gifts that they bring. Head pressures, fireflies and aversion to sun and that’s before they’ve even begun I might have appreciated Kipling or Keats, but instead, something musical its left as a treat. A Clashing steel cymbal, a large kettle drum A Brass section blaring out noises […]
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Walking down the streets i knew
Heading from the museum bridge and past the Lowry I’m heading for my little place by the streets once known to me Wharfside still contains its ‘houses but cottons been traded by song Sea Shanties ? No, but sounds of the day that play out all day long Ordsall Hall still stands proud Off Trafford […]
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The old toy shop
A tale of Lark Hill Place, Salford by inky. As you walk into Lark Hill Place, and head over limestone and cobbled space at the end of the street, something catches young eyes in Radcliffe’s toyshop there on by Stuffed toy animals, puzzles and blocks Snakes and Ladders, and marbles from rocks. Noah’s ark, animals […]
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Lark Hill Place
A reaction to a visit to Lark Hill Place, a reconstructed victorian street located in Salford’s museum & art gallery. Created by Inky for the Inkwell. On your way to Peel Park, lies an old cobbled street from that time before Tarmac Lay under your feet .A Modern carriage waits for its wheels to be […]
The Inkwell 