SOV Campaign culture page

We are pleased to make the following cultural items, pertinent to our campaign, available to our supporters with permission from the artists.

Posters from the Reception class at Fairfield School, Backwell (many thanks to Alexandra Rogers)

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This poem was written by John Cannard in the 1930s when the first pylons
came to the Western edge of the village of Nailsea

The Marching Pylons

John Cannard

See them coming linked together, across the face of all the land,
Latticed giants marching thither, against whom no man makes a stand,
See them in straight line succession, robot army on the march,
Armed unending steel procession, proud, unyielding, stoic and stark.

Through the woodlands, across the river, over mountains, over plain,
Unresisted, on forever, power coursing through their veins,
Power fantastic, deadly power, harnessed power of lightening flash
Pylon upon pyloned tower, stark and impudently brash.

Silent titans in their thousands, steadily making more complete,
Occupation of our homelands, cast prostrate below their feet,
Over hills and over valleys, come these soulless brigand bands,
Seeking other in their sallies to subject all with steely strands.

Pylons by Brontosaurus, (c) Honk Records - www.honkrecords.co.uk

A Poem in tribute to Save Our Valley

Click here to read Thirty Nine a poem about the advance of the pylons