Line 4 is diverted, so we walked it
Five and a half miles, eleven stops, one very patient driver. What you see of Port Calder when the streetcar doesn't come.
Buildings
Priya Nair
7 letters
Letters by Priya Nair
A field guide to the Dock Road night market
Forty stalls, three rules and the dumpling line that is worth every minute.
Food
Every neon sign left on the Esplanade, ranked
Fourteen signs still glow after dark. We walked the boardwalk at one in the morning to rank them, gently.
Nights
· Members
Small Rooms, part 2: the back bar at the Anchor
Sixty people, one fan, and the band everyone in Port Calder will claim they saw first.
Nights
Small Rooms, part 1: the cellar at Doyle's
Forty people, a ceiling you can touch and the best sound in Port Calder, if you stand in the right place.
Nights
· Paid
The night-bus canteen that feeds the whole shift
Below the bus depot, a kitchen with no name feeds the whole night network. Nobody has ever reviewed it. Until now.
Food
The lost-and-found office at Central Station
Eleven umbrellas a day, one tuba a year, and a clerk who has kept every odd glove since 2004.
People