Burslem - A Town That Time Forgot

I've just spent my weekend in Stoke-on-Trent. I was staying on my girlfriends barge, the Sea Mistress, which is currently being pimped up and resides in dry docks 1 mile outside of Tunstal (birthplace of Robbie Williams) and 1/2 mile away from Burslem. These are strange places. There's little or no up-keep happening here. Most of the pub's are boarded up, the street signs are either missing or falling off and a lonely Woolworth's sits empty, appearing not to have been touched since it's closure 9 months ago. I met twins Mick and Morris at the Middleport Environment Centre Recycling Shop, who were happy to have their photograph taken. They gave me a giant rainbow pencil. They told me most of the shop windows have been replaced with perspex because 'youths keep kicking them in'. A fairly typical small midland town.

These photo's are the first installment from a new project called 'Towns Time Forgot'

Rhythms Of Life

For the past week I've been helping out at a charity shop/soup kitchen in Dalston. I work in the shop during the day then at 4pm I go to collect all the un-sold sandwiches from Pret, eat a few, then take them back to the shop. Then we make huge pots of tea and serve it with a slice of cake, donated from an EAT shop. Everyone gets 2 sandwiches a night and also a bowl of soup. It's a fairly rank brew that I have only dared to eat once. They asked me to cook but I said that I didn't have it in me to make anything nearly that foul.

Jobless Enthusiasm

For anybody looking at this BLOG I apologise for my recent displays of neglect. Having just returned from a two month adventure in the US of A, I now find myself joyfully jobless, revelling in free time. I've now been back for almost two weeks and I've still not been food shopping. Helping out on various projects, like feeding the homeless and building rooms for you me bum bum train I've managed to be fed every single day for free. New adventures in hobo. The YMBBT event is top secret so i can only show you this picture for now....

and I'll try to get some snaps at the Soup Kitchen I'm helping out at tonight...

This Michaels Gone To Heaven

Hoxton Street Market 6AM

Veg Man Dave

This is Dave. He sells us top notch, ultra cheap fruit & veg. You'll find him on the corner of Downham Rd off Southgate Rd. Soo very cheap. Seriously you can make enough soup to last a week for about a 5er!

M O O O O O N

TO THE REVOLUTION!

mother and daughter

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