Salford concrete glass and steel

Is it real

As I feel

The chill coming down

I’m givin a frown

It’s all changed round here

Heading from the bridge

Past the Lowry

I wonder back to the days

When kids in clogs

Were playin with frogs

And knocked on Salford streets

With very little treats

Near Ordsall Hall

Standin tall and proud

A reminder of the past

Amongst flats and hotels

Where posh folk sip coffee

On a ledge so high

In the Salford sky

Concrete glass and steel

Is it real

What was it like

In the days of the docks

Where Salford ghosts

Walked round docks,

Terraced streets and pubs

On the Salford scene

Its obscene

Cos there gone now

Just a few left

Dotted round Salford

Some boarded up

Abandoned and turned into

Something else

What else could they do

Its progress they say

Common folk

Told to stay away

Community spirit has gone

Replaced by concrete glass and steel

Is it real

They don’t feel

Where the Salford way of life

Of trouble and strife

But people had a life

And a community

They had unity

And today

Concrete glass and steel of Pomona docks

Its real

But they don’t feel

Listen to Andrew Alan Matthews poem