Londinium – Croft Way – a poem

 

Take the Finchley Road to Croft Way

Ramble through Kidderpore Avenue

Westfield – live in the seasons

full cycle

Welcome to the Garden of Eden my friends

Frognal Way, Church Row, see the leaning headstones

note your mortality

A nod to Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson on the way

Holly Walk

to the High Street

The Wells Tavern in the sun, 30 Well Walk , 1849

Post to Elm Row

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Highest point
in London
Hampsead Observatory – Cooke refracting lenses
see the stars
Notable member:  Heinz ‘Great Egg Race’ Wolff

Did my ancestors get to Lower Terrace, Whitestone Pond?

in 1066 AD with Willam the Conqueror

Did they go to Hampstead Heath?

How was The Battle of Hastings?

Can you hear me DI Alex Drake?

Looking for

Elevator Up

Hampstead tube

King’s Cross

Leonleon

Platform 9 3/4

find The Tune

hotel

next to The Water Rats

Globe Thames audio for audience

Her Majesty’s Keys at the Tower

Parliament Hill – scan the town

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silver rain was falling down upon the morphing ground of London Town

Abbey Road studio 2

The red chairs of the fabs are still used

St. John’s Wood

In ancient times . . .

London: you cost too much what happened to you?

Are you still

a conglomeration

millions of tiny neighborhoods on a medieval grid?

1003px-Baku-London_flightAre you still

a small village

a giant swarm

A hive

A nurturing or a spitting out

Did you welcome Freud to Swiss Cottage in 1938 before The Blitz?

Listen for your greats – David Jones

Blake, Turner

Sherlock Holmes

Shakespeare, Declan MacManus, Richard Thompson

Ashes to Ashes – laced with clues to your past

Are your secrets lurking in my DNA?

 

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