Do you see the cobbles on the streets? Everywhere you look, stone & rock. Can you imagine what it feels like to reach down with your bones & feel the living stones? The city is built on itself, all the cities that came before. Can you imagine how it feels to lie down on an ancient flagstone & feel the power of the rock buoying you up against the tug of the world? And that's where witchcraft begins. The stones have life, & I'm part of it. - adapted from Terry Pratchett
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Sunday, April 15, 2018
Spirit of Place: 1901 Postcard from Birmingham
And of course nothing has changed since then, either in favourable comparison to the capital or in slumminess! That said Inexplicable has a soft spot for the Old Square and this card shows what the houses were demolished to build.
Well yes, they have rather ended up there. One of these days I'm definitely going to post about Manzoni gardens and what a bus driver did to me there...
Well, yes, I did rather like the Old Square, but the Newbury's building is quite magnificent.
ReplyDeleteI have just googled (Binged, really) the Old Square to remind myself what it looks like now, and it appears to be full of buses!
Well yes, they have rather ended up there. One of these days I'm definitely going to post about Manzoni gardens and what a bus driver did to me there...
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