Doesnt feel like home anymore

So bit by bit my past is being taken away, its there in my mind thats true, but its sad to see places I knew well demolished and replaced by bland characterless buildings. I walked past my old primary school not long ago and the playground area had been covered over with new tarmac,the school was there so I suppose thats a good thing but it still felt sad to think the ground where I used to walk on had gone forever.Actually I think I can still follow the same route from my old house to school that I first did 34 years ago but I'd have to start outside a card shop in the grafton, then its down fitzroy street, turn left into eden street past two pubs, then down a passage way, thats still there, I cycled down it not long ago in a hail of foul mouthed abuse from a man who insisted it was a footpath only, I tried to tell him it was for both pedestrians and cyclists but he didnt want to hear that, well I didnt feel like it would be a good idea to try to reason with him so I carried on cycling and he carried on shouting.From his appearence he seemed harmless enough, mid 50s,quite a posh accent,normal hair, but his face looked like he had covered it with talcum powder so it made him look a bit strange. Anyway at the end of the passageway it opens up onto parkers piece, and you can see the big catholic church and my old school is next to that.Parkers piece has a lot of history associated with it and I'll write about that tomorrow.