Thanks Martin. I think I may be older than you but we sing from the same hymn sheet ! Trolleybuses with their overhead wires were like big dodgems and great for atmosphere. Brighton did have them, after the trams went - I've got some old punch tickets off the trams with all the destination printed on them. Stop right there!
That area (Walthamstow)by the way was highly depressing but so right for the period!

Ray

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Great poem Ray. I still have vague recollections of trolleybuses running when I was a kid, I think it was in Brighton. I love the lines
The crittall - eyed walls
of Raelbrook shirts backed up
the multiple bus stops.
Nice one

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Thank you, Ray, for dedicating a poem to me, even if it is situated in the locale of Spurs. I know I should rise above the partisan politics of football to admire all you are doing in this poem; there are great lines in this, such as "the rain fell at timetable times", and many others.Trolleybus poles, too! I will only add that 1970 was the year that Chelsea won the FA Cup for the first time in their history - and I was there, aged 17, when they did it!

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