Source:
Adults
Author:
Douglas Munday
Title:
Swan Street, Northampton. 1948 - 1961.
A memory of childhood. Demolished now - and even memories fade - or so they say, and it will simply come to be somewhere that we stayed. But I remember all the times from when my memory first began ; and I cannot accept that it was merely brick and block and chimney stack. For there was light and life breathed into every room ; No shadows hid within the solid squares we knew. And all our days were blissful held, secure in every deed and thought ; Threee children burnished by the sun when time was but a word to brush aside. Demolished now - but still there is the sound of children merrily at play ; Three voices raised as one to say - This never was just simply somewhere that we stayed.
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