Grumpy Boy Scouts And Blackberries

10:43am Monday 8th October 2007

When we were teenagers, in the early seventies, we played football on Heath Park in Runcorn, until you couldn't see the ball.

Shovels And Bikes

2:37pm Monday 1st October 2007

Around the corner of our street, thirty years ago, lived a lad who mended bikes as a hobby.

Grease On A Saturday Night

11:32am Saturday 22nd September 2007

Its hard to believe that its nearly thirty years since the films Grease and Saturday Night Fever hit our local Cinemas.

First Day At School

11:33am Wednesday 5th September 2007

We all remember our first day at school in different ways.

A Rocking Goodtime Had By All

11:39am Monday 3rd September 2007

It is now some fifty years since the film Rock Around the Clock took Widnes by storm first being shown at the Plaza Cinema.

they fly through the air with the greatest of ease

11:53am Monday 13th August 2007

They fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

Urban commando

11:47am Tuesday 3rd July 2007

Urban Commando I am the urban commando I dodge under washing lines Sneak secretly behind the hedges Making secret messages with cans and string I crawl on my belly dodging the enemy My mother in coloured pinny sings I watch as she plants plastic pegs And taps out Morse code with her feet I am the urban commando on patrol Looking after our back garden and our street I'm young for a solder they say Even five-year-olds fight battles in our heads.

Fairground Rides

10:54am Friday 29th June 2007

I entered this in the Halton Poet of the year contest Fairground Rides When I see you, I feel I'm on a merry-go-round My heart and head is spinning around.

Kennedy

5:05pm Tuesday 26th June 2007

BLOOD AND RAIN It only takes the damp, dirty streets And the smell of cheese and onion crisps, To remind me of the assassination announcement.

A Roaring Success

5:25pm today Thursday 7th June 2007

A Roaring Success It was a wet miserable, Monday afternoon, during the second house matinee in the late nineteen thirties.

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