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People and Changes. |
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Some years ago while taking a short cut through the old part of town
I almost lost my way. All the old cottages along that road and ones
on the corner had been demolished. The area looked like a bombsite.
Walking along the same road was a man with a walking stick, he asked where 'his road'
was, he was looking for a cottage, a place where he was born and
grew up. He had travelled from the North to take a look at his past life I suppose and greet old neighbours.
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We found a small shop nearby where he used to go on errands for his mother,
finding his family home was a bit of an approximation amongst the flattened rubble.
He returned North the same day a disappointed man.
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Although the area has been rebuilt in keeping with the old town, everytime I walk along there
I think of that meeting and the need for people to re visit places which were relevant to their lives.
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