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Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Your Teenage Town, Or Mine

The Albion

With Led Zeppelin on the jukebox

Where I walked in barefoot

On return from the Isle of Wight festival


The West Riding

Where local football stars, internationals too

Turned up on  Saturday teatimes 

Straight after the match


The Burns Tavern

One of our technical college lunchtime venues

Where Syd Brown would eat

Three rounds of pie and peas


The Mandarin Restaurant

Three-course lunch

For seven shillings and sixpence

Served to the more refined students such as I


The Starlight

A dancehall of renown

A place for meeting girls

In the lottery of the lights-out, contra-rotation circles


Lord Jim’s Discotheque

Where Steve from tech (mostly absent from tech)

Was a DJ, he also was said

To deal a  few uppers and downers on the side


The Amsterdam Bar

Save the best for last, where the gay proprietors

Would don their Shirley Bassey costumes

To entertain the pressed-in crowds at closing time