Castlereagh Rd, Crane Enfield – Copper Division
Tim Armstrong* & I
Hit bundy clock – 3pm daily.
Enter cavernous factory hall.
Miles & miles of copper tubes.
And brassy characters.
The silver-haired “dogman”**, pommy, union leader.
Struts along factory floor
Roll-your-own smoke stuck on his lip,
Barking orders & profanities.
Until 11pm, home whistle blows.
Notes:
* Tim Armstrong was a year below me. He was a teammate in the last football team I played with – the photo is here at Short Memory #323 – Tim is standing to my left.
** The dogman is the bloke who instructs the crane driver.
*** Bloody hell this is Short Memory #351, as I write this it is December 19th … 12 days of 2012 to go, and 14 stories to get to #365!! Two behind … and I had a day in hand (there being 366 days this year). So, really 3 days have disappeared somewhere – don’t worry they regularly disappeared back then too. I’ll fixed it in the next 12 days.
365 Short Memories 