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Henleys, chav chic! You have to picture the scene. The guy in the center was drunk. Can of Stella in his back pocket and proud owner of a Henleys t-shirt. Top chav chic(Birmingham UK): photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 3 May 2010
Pissed up
and his bare arms
all limned webs and flags
he falls into Iceland
as lean kids
in Henley shirts
carrying cue cases
take up pavement
with fuck you laughter.
The storm
forecasted
comes closer
with each tiptoe breath
using up the comic force
of the grand false lashes
on the now shivering girl.
Wooden Boy: Bus note 66, from The Little Wooden Boy, 10 August 2013
and his bare arms
all limned webs and flags
he falls into Iceland
as lean kids
in Henley shirts
carrying cue cases
take up pavement
with fuck you laughter.
The storm
forecasted
comes closer
with each tiptoe breath
using up the comic force
of the grand false lashes
on the now shivering girl.
Wooden Boy: Bus note 66, from The Little Wooden Boy, 10 August 2013
Untitled: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 3 May 2010
Oscar Freddie Snooker Cue Case: photo by Ken Doherty (Ken Doherty Cue Sports), 12 July 2012
ED. A member of the English Defence League with the Flag of St George tattooed on his skull: photo by Si Barber (si.barber), 2010
Untitled, Camden: photo by Geraldo, 27 May 2013
Joe Darby (in Villa kit), ex-West Bromwich Albion, world champion of the standing jump in Victorian times. Statue at junction of Halesowen Road and Church Road, Netherton, Worcestershire: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 17 January 2010
Joe Darby. A sculpture to the local world standing jump champion of Victorian times. (Ex-West Bromwich Albion footballer.) Junction of Halesowen Road and Church Road, Netherton, Worcestershire: photo by Gordon Griffiths, 9 April 2007
Cradley, Halesowen, West Midlands: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 7 February 2010
One hell of a cooker hood. Cradley, Halesowen, West Midlands photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 7 February 2010
Exhausted. GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 19 March 2010
Giant Rhubarb. GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 19 March 2010
Rusty door.GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 19 March 2010
Weird pipe slide. GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 19 March 2010
Blue sofa: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 26 March 2010
Before dialup: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 11 April 2010
Untitled.GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 5 March 2010
5 valves. GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT),19 March 2010
GKN Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 5 March 2010
GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 5 March 2010
Exterior view, GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 19 March 2010
After. GKN, Screw Factory, Smethwick: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 7 January 2012
Baggeridge Brick Works: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 28 April 2013
Untitled: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 9 September 2012
Sleaford Maltings: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 1 July 2012
1902: photo by Martin Robert Smith (TranKmasT), 26 March 2010
The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Deritend, Birmingham UK: photo by Elliott Brown (ell brown), 10 October 2009
This is The Custard Factory in Digbeth, from High Street Deritend. On High Street Deritend they are restoring the original part of the Custard Factory (the bit labelled Bird and Sons). I wonder how long it will take to finish restoring the former Devonshire Works? I returned in February 2010, to find the scaffolding taken down. Devonshire House is a Grade II listed building. 1902. Red brick and terracotta with some stone dressings. Four storeys plus attic; 3 bays. Ground floor of terracotta with 6 windows in recesses with ause-de-panier arches, those of the 2 outside bays with ogee gablets. The 3 storeys above are separated vertically by thin polygonal shafts with decorative finials which divide the bays, and horizontally by wide bands of brick to the outside and of terracotta to the centre. In the centre, the bands inscribed 'Alfred Bird and Sons Limited/ Devonshire Works/1837 and 1902' with foliage. Within the grid of shafts and bands, the first floor with couplets of 2-light transomed windows with arched lights and the second and third floors with central windows of cross type and outer couplets of arched windows. Arched parapet with, over the centre bay, a shaped gable with 2 arched windows, tilework of a ship in full sail and little pinnacles. Left and right of this composition, later wings of lesser interest, that to the left of 2, that to the right of 8 bays. To the left again, railings with the Bird's custard motif in them.
Gibb Street -- Custard Factory beyond railway viaduct, Digbeth, Deritend, Birmingham UK: photo by Elliott Brown (ell brown), 24 July 2011
Devonshire Works, Digbeth, Birmingham UK: photo by D7606, 19 June 2013
Devonshire Works, Digbeth, Deritend, Birmingham UK: photo by William Fallows (new folder), 24 July 2010
Devonshire Works, Digbeth, Deritend, Birmingham UK: photo by Tim Ellis, 25 March 2006
Custard factory at the former Devonshire Works, Digbeth, Deritend, Birmingham UK -- door with new AS1 graffiti. Heard a bunch of kids to the left of here. Not sure what was going on: photo by Elliott Brown (ell brown), 12 November 2011
The Devonshire Works Building, offices of the Birds Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham UK: photo by Stephen Wheeler (Wagsy Wheeler), 27 January 2013