Does anyone ever really look at the town they live in, how much of a town does someone look at when they choose to visit, questions, rhetoric, no one could ever give a difinitive answer however my guess is that in general those who live in a town are so overworked, overstressed, over involved in lifes issues that all but the necessary is overlooked.
Equally so as a tourist, while signs and bill boards, restrictive and coersive instructions guide and direct people, in accordance either with traffic flow maintenance or by sending people to find, places to eat, drink to sit and rest, there are places of interest where people are signposted, the main tourists areas, but what of the areas that are overlooked or deemed unimportant, this town is full of them and eagerly await my artistic exploration, it is these places that capture my heart rather than the main drag.
Of these places there are many, the image of Castle How( above), erected to commemorate a great battle that once existed in times long past, equally as 'unimportant' are the areas around the site of the canal head, the very heart of the import and export of goods and materials. I have to admit that even the finding of this latter location was by no means a quick and easy task coming a full 3 years into my occupancy of the town; what other secrets lie ahead for me to uncover, only time will tell.
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