The Creative Hub, The Storey Meeting House Lane Lancaster, LA1 1TH

Artwork: Claire Coupland

Audio Description

Claire’s Selby Connection

Claire moved to Selby with her family and found a place where her voice could be heard.

Claire’s Selby Story

It began in a white house
at the top of a hill
up and down the country
run of the mill.

Making music seemed like a dream
little girls from this town are not to be seen.

Keep it quiet
Tone it down
You’re never leaving
this little town.

She packed up the car
and didn’t look back
off she set
on a turbulent track.

The original plan
Derailed for a time
hospitals, heart break
and bottles of wine.

But when she arrived, in this little town
nobody told her to tone it down.

Finally a home
a place to grow
no longer wandering
the planet alone.

Character Sketch and Collages