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Bewdley Quayside... on the River Severn !

           

[Guest Judy]

Polly, I do like your Bewdley pics but I can't help humming this:- it's not all that far away from Shropshire!

 

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[Craftysnapper]

Nice mono Polly,I know Bewdley very well I nearly always go to the 1940's weekends they hold there at the train station,that and Bridgenorth.

[Korky]

I always like to see text in a photograph - this one is a little mysterious, which makes it even better. Very nice!

Korky

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Ah Judy ...what a joy John Betjeman  was . Reading and listening to him is always food for the soul ...Thanks for that reminder

We've probably walked past each other Paul as I'm usually at those events too !   'Tis a small world really. 

Hi Korks ... there are a number of  steel words embedded along the length of the quayside walk, I recall Salmon, Coracles  etc Thank you people, for the  likes too....

As you can see ... the articulated screens are a must for us OAPs 

[Korky]

Here's a beautiful bit of John Betjeman - He's one of my favourite Englishmen, along with Ralph Vaughn-Williams (whose piano is in the news at the moment), LS Lowry and Norman Cornish. I'd love to invite them all for tea and a chat.

Korky

 

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How that resonates  with the passing of the  years Korks ... He was such a beautiful man ... And I'd get my best Royal Doulton out for you all  to be able to join you and  those three   four for  tea ...I'd even make the eccles cakes ....Norman Cornish's work   always felt very real ...  and I have to  admit to knowing someone with an original Lowry on  their bedroom wall  ... I  always ask to see it when visiting ... and admit to standing ... for as long as they will let me ... just  gazing at it  !

 

[Guest Ron]

Well seeing as its gone off topic Polly... I am a big Dylan Thomas fan, a wordsmith I think if ever there was one. Youtube and listen to Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood it is just spine tingling at times.

Ron

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It's my other half's  favourite recital Ron ...and we've listened to it  more times that I've had the proverbial   ...but one never tires of it ... .. I don't  mind straying a little off the  topic  ... Pictures that trigger memories are playing  an important part in my life this week as I  found a cousin three weeks ago ... , my late Dad's eldest brother's son ... I never knew any of them and last night he presented me via email with 38 photographs of me  age 6 months  - 5  that I had never seen before . ..it's been emotional ...to say the least .My Father was soldier serving abroad for most of my childhood  and he had sent them to his parents  who I  only ever met once when I was seven !

[Guest Ron]

How lovely Polly, but I can understand very emotional. I had something a little similar last year but we wont go into it here

Ron  

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Yup ...strayed off topic enough methinks ..

.The new flood barriers on the other hand  appear to be doing exactly what it said on the tin ...the first time I ever saw the River Severn  it was in  full flood mode  21 years ago ...the mallards were swimming past me doing about  seventy !!

[Guest Judy]

The first time I saw the Severn was when I Iwas about 5 or 6 ((long ago now) . We went to Shrewsbury by train. Mum wanted to go shopping and Dad wanted to go to the Dingle (the park that borders the Severn). I think they compromised. We alternated between Chester and Shrewsbury for years.

Oh - so many memories of Shropshire and the Severn. That's why I thought of the Betjeman poem .

Sorry, Polly for off topiicing your thread but the Severn is very homesick/long time ago memories making.

 

(PS - Mr has just heard me playing JB's stuff on youtube and remembers that we had a couple of LPs - he wants to get them again!. We have the books)

 

 

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No need for apologies  Judy  ....  If photos are discussed without referring to what they mean to us the whole point of a forum  would seem irrelevant .. everything talked about had  some relevance to  Severn ..an integral part of the image.

My OH also heard it, the link, and got the books that we have, off the shelf... And... watched some of the YouTube recitals for an hour !!

All this triggered from a word on a photo ... Just proves  the power of an image eh