Yesterdays Books

Steam pudding bubbles

                                in a muslin

Logs,

       waiting by the axe for sticking

Chattering kettle

       needs swinging back from fire

Workshirts

          winched up by the ceiling

‘Ducks f dinner’

          warming in the range

A brand new

          Donkey stone is beckoning

BeAsts HeAd

       soaking on the leaded drainer

Mucky parsnips

              badly need a scrub

Collars steep in starch

                  in the pot sink

The Fairy, speckled and the green 

                      sit by the floor brush

(Old papers piled

           display an ad for Drozone)

The boil-saver rattles

        in the bottom of the malt-milk

Buck et by the fire needs

                nutty slack from bunker

And pretty dreamer Peggy’s

                            dancing dancing

The four valve set plays

                             Billy Cotton

Imagined flowing taffeta

                       swirls about her

Lovely beauty Peggy

          Dances - Dances - Dances

Books available:

 

All £2 including postage in UK, unless stated otherwise - overseas please add 50p - International Reply Coupons accepted.

 

Dancing in the Kitchen

             - The Book of the Show

£2.50

 

Dancing in the Kitchen

             - The Stories

£3

(The above are £5 for the two)

 

All Our Yesteryears

The original show based on older people’s reminiscences.

 

Happy Past Times

         - The Book of the Show

 

Happy Past Times

        - Your Stories

There are actually 8 versions of this book so if you are from a home where Adrian has worked ask for the one from there.

 

30’s Poems

A series of poems for children all modelled on popular poems of the period and including reminiscences from older people and references to exhibits in the Castle Museum. Also available as an interactive drama project.

 

 

Bright Light Arts

23 Bright Street,

York YO26 4XS UK

(Any cheques payable to

“Adrian Spendlow”)

23 Bright Street

York

YO26 4XS

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