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Some of the Hot College Guys at my apartment pool during the first week back to school. More to come...
The final batch of 26 Guy Arab V in the Lancashire United fleet had "F" suffix registrations, as did Manchester's first Mancunian double deckers - a world apart!
278 picks up at the Farnworth Market stop followed by a former Leigh Corporation lowbridge (6903) Leyland Titan PD3A on loan from GMT to Swinton Depot to cover for a vehicle shortage
“I’m self-employed; I sell self-published poetry. I’ve been doing it for about three years. It started a few years ago. I suffer from chronic fatigue and I wasn’t getting anywhere with my doctor. I wasn’t prepared to have their tests and take their medication. I use alternative healing methods and it works for me, but they wouldn’t recognise it. He wouldn’t provide me with a sick note, and I couldn’t do 35 hours of job search because of my condition. I wasn’t able to get an allowances and they said I was on my own. I knew that I had to find another way to make a living. And the thing that I’ve always been most appreciated for has been my poetry.
I’ve been writing poetry for thirty years. I remember writing one of my first pieces at school. We had to write about Guy Fawkes. The teacher liked what I had written and they got me to read it in front of the whole school in assembly. I really enjoyed that; it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. I knew from then on that performing was something I could do.
During my teens, I was inspired by punk poets like Ian Dury and John Cooper Clarke. A lot of the punk lyrics were quite poetic, and the music was simple but effective. So with school friends we started messing around with instruments and creating rhythms and sounds. Years later, these friends have gone on to become renowned musical artists themselves. A few of them are in a band called ‘Sentimentalists’ and they use a lot of my work as lyrics.
We’re all doing well artistically, just not financially.”