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Old Tinsley Pots

from Sheffield Made by Steel Songbirds

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The Tinsley cooling towers were a well known icon at Tinsley, near Sheffield and the M1. They were demolished on 24th August 2008, amid much controversy.

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4. Old Tinsley Pots
© bEx (Rebecca) Neale 2010

There was something a-missing this morning
as by the canal I walked round;
the breeze it were colder, blowing over my shoulder,
for the Old Tinsley Pots had come down.

For seventy years they’d been up there
standing two-fifty foot high.
An aesthetic alarm but not doing no harm
between the horizon and sky.

They opened up Meadowhall car park
and the motorway closed on that day,
and thousands joined in as the count did begin,
and the Pots they awaited their fate.

The crowd held their breath, it were silent –
Before one loud crack and a fall.
Then a sad distant rumble as the Pots took their tumble,
but a big concrete finger stood tall.

T’was the north tower standing for Northern.
Take that! to your power plant boys.
But one more ignition to complete demolition,
and the finger come down with no noise.

As the dust settled over the viaduct
the crowd they all cheered, then stopped.
They’d been there so long, now this skyline had gone,
and we thought of the mem’ries we’d got.

We called them the Gates to South Yorkshire.
No sea front, no big fancy dome.
Now we’ve cancelled our trips on planes and on ships,
for fear that we’ll never get home

Come down, come down,
the Old Tinsley Pots have come down.

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from Sheffield Made, released February 15, 2019
Rebecca (Bex) Neale

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Steel Songbirds Sheffield, UK

Steel Songbirds are Marilla Homes and Emily Eastwood. A comic and poignant musical duo based in Sheffield UK. Blending acapella voices, with occasional fiddle or bouzouki, these girls know how to laugh!

Steel Songbirds were dug from the soil of Australia & England, forged in Sheffield UK, tempered in the swimming pool of life & sharpened on the wit of singledom in the folk/pub/archaeology worlds. ... more

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