IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 'OUSES IN BETWEEN
(Edgar Bateman / George LeBrunn)
Gus Elen - 1899
If you saw my little backyard
"Wot a pretty spot", you'd cry
It's a picture on a sunny summer day
Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages
Wot people doesn't buy
I makes it on a Sunday look all gay
The neighbours finks I grow 'em,
And you'd fancy you're in Kent
Or at Epsom if you gaze into the mews
It's a wonder as the landlord
Doesn't want to raise the rent
Because we have such nobby distant views
Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And Chingford to the Eastward could be seen
Wiv a ladder and some glasses
You could see to 'Ackney Marshes
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between
We're as countrified as can be
Wiv a clothes prop for a tree
The tub-stool makes a rustic little stile
Ev'ry time the blooming clock strikes
There's a cuckoo sings to me
And I've painted up "To Leather Lane A Mile"
Wiv tomatoes and wiv radishes
Wot 'adn't any sale
The backyard looks a purfick mass o' bloom
And I've made a little beehive
Wiv some beetles in a pail
And a pitchfork wiv the 'andle of a broom
Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And Rye 'Ouse from the cock-loft could be seen
Where the chickweed man undresses
To bathe 'mong the water cresses
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between
There's the bunny shares his egg box
Wiv the cross-eyed cock and hen
Though they 'as got the pip and him the 'morf
In a dog's 'ouse on the line-post
There was pigeons, nine or ten
Till someone took a brick and knocked it off
The dust cart though it seldom comes
Is just like 'Arvest 'Ome
And we made to rig a dairy up some'ow
Put the donkey in the wash'ouse
Wiv some imitation 'orns,
For we're teaching im to moo just like a kah
Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And 'Endon to the westward could be seen
And by clinging to the chimbley
You could see across to Wembley
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between
Though the gasworks is at Woolwich
They improve the rural scene
For mountains they would very nicely pass
There's the mushrooms in the dust-hole
With the cowumbers so green
It only wants a bit 'o 'ot 'ouse glass
I wears this milkman's nightshirt
And I sits outside all day
Like the ploughboy cove what's mizzled o'er the Lea
And when I goes indoors at night
They dunno what I say
'Cause my language gets as yokel as can be
Oh! it really is a wery pretty garden
And soapworks from the 'ousetops could be seen
If I got a rope and pulley
I'd enjoy the breeze more fully
If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between
[QUOTE=jacky gunnion;304308If at my view point ,and i feel that the foreground is messy i ,still take an image ,which once home i will sort out in photoshop ,so as the punters will never no..
gregs dad will see an improvment, if the viewers are a bit more critical, but not judge mental...love u gregs dad...[/QUOTE]
I did exactly that a cpl of years ago with this
Some old Liverpool pics I found
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Jacky I have plenty of pics of the waterfront, but when I took that, I wanted to include the foreground of the spikes which are around the tower and show the river as water dividing Birkenhead and Liverpool. Here are a couple taken the same day.
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Ged, ya should have done a google maps and blurred the number plates
Some old Liverpool pics I found
My Flickr Pics
Latest Additions:
Wolfmother @ O2 Academy
Spin Doctors @ O2 Academy 2
Sefton Park
Liverpool Cathedral Tower Experience and St Georges Hall
Chester Zoo
Wirral Egg Run 2011
Check out the Yo! Liverpool Flickr Group
Good one Ged. I have noticed that a llot of your photies are from "cruisin" around OF A NIGHT ??? Hmmmm.
Keeping it real!
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Ye Gods ! Dont they build anything to last any more ?
I agree, Ged. Fabulous photograph. Colors and lights are brilliant and there's a sense of movement with the arrow and the traffic about to start up again. This could be entered in a photograph contest. Bravo.
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Yes fine photo, Joe. Though the dilapidated look of the building with the missing letters which I would guess used to spell "Kirkby Swimming Pool" is anything other than "Nice" as stated on the construction hoarding.
Chris
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