AFTER
THE WAR
They built this street
a hundred years before
And rebuilt it sometime
after the war
A farmers field in
eighteen thirty three
The Victorians changed
all that you see
Throwing up new houses
and building roads
In nineteen twenty
something art deco
Those metal frames with
little panes of glass
replaced the sash cord
windows of the past
But Hitler's bombs put
paid to idle dreams
When the war was over -
new housing schemes
Although somehow this
terrace row still stands
The sunburst
plasterwork replaced by hand
And all those little
panes put back in place
Then double glazing
came and changed the face
On and on into this new
century
They say it takes a
special eye to see
What was once there and
oh who really cares
I know I change the
mood – I want to share
That's it that's all I
really have to say
About bits of St
Budeaux on this day
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