Magic and Loss

Feb 102014

Rainbow over Brisbane Road - click to enlarge

Rainbow over Brisbane Road, seen from seat P38, West Stand.
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Tagged with: Football, Leyton, Matt Haynes, Sport

Looking back through the clouds…

On The Way To And From The Post Box

by Jess Sully
Burrell’s Wharf was once a dye factory. The smoke billowing out of the boiler chimney showed what colours were being made inside – that, and the workers’ skins at the end of the day, as they trudged out in shades of red or blue or aquamarine. I want to believe, as the heritage sign says, that pigeons with pink-tinted feathers once strutted on the rooftops round here, but I’m not sure I do. [read more...]