I'll add Tooting Graveney to Wandle as another t'riffic name. L, P.
B
On 12/06/2014, at 1:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> He was, the sad creature. The Graveney is a tributary of the Wandle and you
> could see it about to go underground a mile or so south of my parents house
> in Tooting Graveney. That house had a coal cellar. In the winter it was
> inches deep in water. There were something like 40 houses along one side of
> our road where there had been 4 in the days that Johnson went sniffing
> after the scent of Mrs Thrale - you could spit at Thrale Rd from where I
> was teenaged, and sometimes I did. Presumably the forces of Edwardian
> capitalism decided there was no need to allow a space to the ghost of a
> river.
>
> Anyway, dear boy, do show respect to our natural powers. Let's live by
> British values.
>
> pip pip
>
> L
>
>
>
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> On 11 June 2014 16:13, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> William Morris was the man picked the Wandle and inspired -News From
>> Nowhere
>> P
>> Ps sorry L to offend your mighty river
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 11 June 2014 12:41
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: pat snap 630 !"!"!"
>>
>> Pat as a citizen once of and now near the Wandle I take issue with your
>> description of its being piddling. Too much re and misdirection; but in its
>> unaltered state it was a substantial Thames tributary and a major centre of
>> early industrialisation
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>> On 11 June 2014 12:35, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Pat, I laughed. Like the local content too. But you might consider
>>> butting out one of your buts. Two buts throws readers out. Line 4
>>> could simply begin, 'It was' for instance without disarming your flow.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 6:39 pm, Patrick McManus <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RIVER
>>>>
>>>> I am not
>>>> criticising
>>>> she said
>>>> but it was
>>>> all very well
>>>> naming our son
>>>> Moses
>>>> but isn't it
>>>> a bit much
>>>> to make a cradle
>>>> to tar it
>>>> to float it
>>>> in the river
>>>> after all
>>>> the Wandle
>>>> is hardly
>>>> the Nile
>>>> and as far
>>>> as I know
>>>> there are no
>>>> Pharaoh's Daughters
>>>> living in
>>>> Earlsfield
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r573
>>>> some here will know this but
>>>>
>>>> River Wandle is a local piddling River Earlsfied -is a sub-suburbia
>>>> nearby This inspired by partner suddenly taking up a writing course
>>>> -subject
>>> 'River
>>>> Wandle'
>>>>
>>>
>>
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