Tag: uniform

• Hats and Caps

  #Socs #Hats I’ve always had a thing for a hat it began quite simply as a kid when i wore a bobble hat in winter to keep out the cold Different Colours different patterns different fabrics different decoration Events up and down the land picked up the fashion purloining something decidedly northern as something for […]

  inkdropk

  14 May 2022

  Fashion, Poetry

  Bobble, Cap, Events, Flat, Guide, Hat, Headwear, Marshal, Northern, socs, Sporty, uniform, Volunteer

• Back to school again

  #school September a time announcing – the summer is over. No more creating sandcastles on the beach or hearing the breakers hitting the shore exercise books and pencils at the ready learning has begun again Unless they’ve sent you to “Big School”, your New kit will be much like your old one It identifies you […]

  inkdropk

  2 Sep 2021

  Growing up, Learning, Poetry

  Book, Class, Classmates, Computer, Exercises, Form, Kit, Learning, library, Reading, Return, School, September, Tablet, Technology, uniform

• Suit

  

  #FOWC #Suit Shirt and Tie, Jacket and Trousers Usually set out like everyone else at school or in the office It identifies you as a member of the company, but when That moment comes, you can’t wait for your T-shirt and Jeans

  inkdropk

  10 Oct 2019

  Clothes, Fashion, Poetry

  Company, fowc, octpowrimo, Shirt, Suit, Tie, Trousers, uniform

• Hidden things

  #Promptuarium 13th September 2018 Hidey Holes in the place where I rest my head hold memories, to recall and to cherish programmes of events and photographs uniform pins of times gone by Old cameras look on in awe as 24 stills turn to 48 turn to over a 100 as film turns to cartridge and […]

  inkdropk

  13 Sep 2018

  Memories, Poetry

  Albums, Cameras, Hidden, objects, Old, Photographs, Pins, Programmes, uniform

• Rebel

  Salford 10th May 2018 Rebel You were always the one in school that caused a scene causing young heads to turn at your juvenile antics Wearing the Uniform the way you wanted raising an eye of the deputy head They called you “Cool” and your pals all circled as school rules fell and school skirts […]

  inkdropk

  10 May 2018

  Growing up, Poetry, Schooldays

  Adolescence, Defiant, Flirt, Girl, Hair, high, Rebel, Red, Romance, Rules, School, uniform

• The Old School tie….

  Uniform Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC High School, 1987 Stood inside the “New” Amalgamated school by Buile Hill Park, in Salford. Two sets of kids awaiting to go off to lessons – but first – the set up of forms The classes had to be put together – Cathedral with St Lawrence’s. you couldn’t […]

  inkdropk

  8 Jul 2017

  Childhood, Clothes, Growing up, Memories, Schooldays

  Life, School, Schooldays, Tie, uniform

• Another boot in a window

  A tale of an Old Army Boot – On display in the timeline at Imperial War Museum North in Trafford, Manchester.   Another boot in a window ? The cobbler must be proud! As it’s placed in a window wi uniforms Oh, how it sings out loud.   But, dear boot is looking quite shabby, […]

  inkdropk

  23 Sep 2015

  Army, Exhibit, Museum, Poetry, War, World War I, writing

  Army, Artefact, Boot, History, IWM North, Mud, Museum, Poem, Remembrance, Tale, Time, timeline, uniform, Window, World War I