"We could know everything, and still not understand anything" - Antonio Porchia
When I think about landscape there is something more than component parts, there's an integral keystone, that mysterious element, ever elusive yet immutably present. #poetrycommunity#poetry
The 1974 'Jeans' VW Beetle interiors were upholstered with faux denim. They couldn't use the real thing because of safety laws concerning real denim. Instead they used painted nylon making the 'Jeans' VW Beetle one of the first examples of using denim as a colour in its own right
@OldStationSt The pub where Harry Gem devised lawn tennis is also gone. There's a pub next door on Bath Street but it's not original. There isn't even a sign about it. Birmingham history is like a secret they're afraid to tell
@fraveris dappled dabble of coming winter
birches perch on season's edge
lean lean-long limbs over ravine
look luck in the eye and bless
themselves delves self deeper into
daze of days unknown;
here is the fall π
@PaulDragonwolf1 slightly distorted
amateur painter dabbling
in watercolour
leaves an impression
suggestive of here
upon a strip of tarmac doused
(as if previously on fire)
and cordoned off
by a zig and zag picture frame
street scene
The last game at Muntz Street was played in 1906, Small Heath beat Bury 3-0. In 1943, as the city received its charter, they changed their name to Birmingham City FC. There is nothing left of the previous stadium today. #sporthistory
Birmingham City FC began in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance FC, they had a stadium on Muntz Street which had capacity for 10k spectators. Later a wooden stand was added increasing numbers to 30k. By the 1900s, due to Brum's vast expansion this was too small. 1/2