Lodge Street
where we'd go and meet Nana on Sunday
after the Methodist prayers.

an old mill workers terraced house,
outside privvy and inside
the steepest stairs

a slice of real Victoriana back in the sixties
and we kids were just pixies back then

torn down as
they remodelled
the old town

new they say is the way to go

the old sign's still there
you just have to know
where to look.