Ode

Ode to Newtown 
Written by Kathy Harris   
Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:13
 

How wrong they were to pull them down,
The little streets of old Newtown.
Nothing there to tell a stranger - no plaque, or memorial stone;
Nothing to tell anyone that this place was once my home.

How many families came from here only to depart,
Nothing left of the Community that once beat in it's heart.
With Pastures new they plied us, those politicians of the day;
No one told us we might have the right to stay.
We went like lambs to the slaughter to those council houses in
Trowbridge, Fairwater and Tremorfa
and the lure of all that "hot water"
We went , first some, then all

The proverbial carrot looked good at the time,
But to our cost, a monster crime.
How wrong they were to pull them down
The little streets of "Old Newtown"

Kathy Harris (Davies)