The New Briton Gazette - Vol.1
by Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

"The husband-and-wife folk duo of Scotsman Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) and American Peggy Seeger (b. 1935) sing a collection of original “contemporary British songs.” Many of MacColl and Seeger’s songs, which utilize traditional and original folk melodies, focus on the economic and political struggles of the working class in mid-20th-century Great Britain. Of note are Seeger’s songs “The Crooked Cross,” about the reappearance of swastikas on synagogues in Germany in the 1950s, and “There’s Better Things For You,” an anti-nuclear-bomb marching song. Song lyrics are in the liner notes. " Folkways

Loved all these tunes but the acapella version of The Trafford Road Song is a particular highlight for me.

""But I'll stay beside the Irwell all my life before I'll stand
In some foreign land with a bayonet in my hand""

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-briton-gazette-vol-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXj94MtgV1w&list=PLu3x3Rn7-97Oe_yHv2Gw_8wgb7NhDxiOK&index=6

#ewanmcoll #peggyseeger #britishfolk #antiwar #irwell

📍: Aqueduct 11A, Clifton Aqueduct
ℹ️: aqueduct
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.5273201407292&mlon=-2.31683592315614#map=17/53.5273201407292/-2.31683592315614
📸: Photo by donald judge on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/27911027@N00/49964614221

#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #manchester #prestwich #irwell #valley #park

Threatened Irwell riverside path to remain open after all.

A developer has scrapped plans to divert a 300-year-old riverside footpath through a hotel lobby after a public outcry that a right of way was being “stolen” and “sacrificed for private gain”.

L&G now guarantees that “from the hotel opening date the towpath shall be dedicated as highway for use by pedestrians for public access in perpetuity”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/25/plan-to-build-over-salford-riverside-footpath-dropped-after-outcry

#Salford #Manchester #Irwell #Footpaths #RightsOfWay

Keep the door closed, it says, it doesn't like the breeze rattling through the house.
And you wouldn't want to upset it, it says. Be terrible if the foundations of #Manchester turned into sand and ran into the #Irwell. Wouldn't it?

HTs #LimininalSpaces #Hookland #TellingStories #psychogeography #UrbanDecay #photography

Manchester #skyline changed a little over 19 years
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#irwell #river #manchester #photographer #photography #salforduni #buildings #construction #city #development #growth #towerblock #crescent #manchesterphotographer #salford

#nikon #z6ii #nikkor #24-70S
#Landscape #Tree #Nature #Cloud