Up the Junction in Norbury

“Late evenings by the fire. With little kicks inside her”

Norbury Junction on the Shropshire Union Canal, 9th May 2024 (Author’s Collection)

This brief sunshine filled article is dedicated to the first love of my life and without whose musical guidance I wouldn’t have developed an appreciation for the late 1970’s and early 1980’s supreme music from London band “Squeeze”. Although I’ve used their track “Up The Junction” for obvious reasons, their track “Labelled With Love” will live with me forever, as will the memories of two opposites attracting for a couple of summers in the mid 1990’s and the singing of this song to one another for shits and giggles, larks and laughs, and all labelled with love.

“Drinks to remember
I, me and myself, winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf
Home is a love that I miss very much
The past has been bottled and labelled with love”

For “V”.

(Author’s Collection)

The long and straight water road north/north west until the Shropshire Union Canal joins with the Manchester Ship Canal in 40 or so miles.

Another view heading south/south west from “Norbury Junction Bridge” or Bridge Number 38 of the Shropshire Union Canal (Part 1).

Another view heading south/south west from “Norbury Junction Bridge” or Bridge Number 38 of the Shropshire Union Canal (Part 2).

Oh so beautiful Norbury Junction.

The Shrewsbury and Newport sections of the Shropshire Union Canal are now largely defunct, but work is underway throughout several parts of Shropshire to restore them to their former glory.

(1) My pride and joy. All available via Amazon (Author’s Collection)

(2) My pride and joy. All available via Amazon (Author’s Collection)

Thanks for reading. I hope this message in a bottle in The Matrix finds you well, prospering, and the right way up in an upside down world.

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