#rememberance #poppies Poppies @ IWM North Something grand has fallen softly on the floor of the war museum numbers of red poppies fall down from a point in the sky you may ask – why ? to remember those on flanders field and other battles now revealed now tumbled down to museum floor and remembered …
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Through a window (stained)
#Stained #Glass #Window #Poetry #art #crafts Produced from pieces of coloured glass individually picked out and placed in a frame capturing a scene of a famous building together, as the sun shines through each piece up on the walls a coloured scene appears reactions – by the people amazing enjoying the site on the steel …
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 …
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 …
Creating a buzz
4th September 2018 #Beeinthecity #Manchester #Buzz A poem in honour of those colourful bees currently nesting in my city The hive will be in Gtr Manchester till 23rd September – it’s well worth a visit. (for those who haven’t read my #beeinthecity posts – they’re artworks!) The hive arrived Home for some bees With artistic …
Warehouse
Salford (Via Trafford Park), 3rd September 2018 This is the place where mighty ships cargo lay resting after its journey after a long ride on the waves Men toiled in the heat as silent shipping crates moved to the sound of the warehouse mice avoiding the company cat Inwards and Out the …
Show n Tell
Educate Salford, 4th September I’m sat down having Just got home from the Imperial war museum, in Manchester, where i’ve been helping out in the galleries, helping people around. In this role , i’m occasionally stood by the information station, where various objects to do with the first and second world war are on display …
Bridge
Salford, 5th July 2017 in response to the photo challenge Bridge It can be happily said that where i live, in Salford, you’re no more than five minutes away from a bridge of some sort. The mass of water you see above is the Manchester Ship Canal , which flows towards the river mersey, …
Imperial War Museum (North)
Imperial War Museum North, painted by the author. (c) Brian F Kirkham A poem on the branch of Imperial War Museum in Trafford, Greater Manchester. Another Earth has Landed on the banks of the canal, Broken in three by the hammer called War. You climb the Stair to reach the pole. As darkness falls, on …
The Inkwell 