My Old School Ties

It had no Latin, no French and no Greek          
no aspirations to be Oxbridges,          
no Eaton's playing fields just soot-grimed streets          
and forever reeked of boiled cabbages.          
          
But the area served some famous names          
just not this infant and junior school's,          
Keith Waterhouse, author of playwright fame,          
and Richard Hoggart's literacy use.          
         
And Mathew Murray and John Blenkinsop's      
engine, on their world famous railway line,      
and that Rolls Royce of prams the Silver Cross      
which I guess I rode in once in a while.      
     
But they've scrubbed it up from its mucky self          
Changing with the income of different wealths.