Names and Memory Games

over the bridge to 'western street &parminters for savoury sausage meat along by the slaughterhouse in silver lane pop into jones&cocks out of the rain pass the fire-house to aylesbury news glance the photos of the weeks who's&who's to adams tobacco,corner of the market square pass mcilroys hear the traders shout their wares my favoured table at the ancient 'old beams' tea ,scones & local churned creams thru ' bullshead ' alley to upper high street &nurricks,for a dental 'date' then swiftly retreat window-shop spraggs hermons, & hepworths selections into hopcrafts for enticing confections on to adkins for an inner-tube kit the walk uphill keeps me fit shop for groceries at pearks,greggs&maypole stopping at the co-op to order the coal into to kingsbury for ashfords linctus best not delay in hasberrys ,seventy-eights to spin and play collect mum's hat from the bonnet-box next,bradfords for those needed locks fresh breadrolls from baker page &quick back&sides styling,not yet the rage box of nails from ironmonger jowett calling at sayers for my lyons cornet over the railway bridge to west bros shop for north&randall tizer & a lemon lollipop long lost names in a memory fading fast here recollected from aylesbury's distant past