Earsham Street wall is subject of poem
I'M sure the following poem will interest certain people who remember 'The Wall'
at Earsham Street or Pitsmoor residents at that time. It was on Earsham Street in the 1950s to the 70s at Pitsmoor.
The Big Wall
There was a wall at the top of our yard, which ran the length of the street,
If it had eyes and ears and could tell the tale, there'd be secrets (so to speak).
We'd throw rubber balls up against it, to see how high it could go,
But the balls would get stuck in between the stones, they were there for years, you know.
The wall separated two roads, ours and Thorndon Road,
I don't know how many stones were used to build it, but it must have been a load!
We sometimes walked along the top, which took some nerve to do,
We could see right into our kitchen (me mam could see us too!)
We sometimes tried to climb it, but didn't get too high,
It was like climbing up a mountain, the wall that reached the sky.
That wall was our view for many years, we knew every gap, every stone,
We grew up with it and when we left, the wall must have felt alone.
We went back many years later, and the houses were all gone,
The wall had been pulled down as well, just piles and piles of stone.
The rubble must have held a hundred balls, we got them back at last,
And years of Earsham Street's secrets were buried in the past!
Kathleen Turner, Woodthorpe Road, Sheffield
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