Flowers - signs of life in this industrial, sunlit view of a window. Gates and fire escapes, brick and tin, the human being must have a connection to nature, even in the middle of the biggest of cities.
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New York, NY - United States
Dear Geordie, Thank you for highlighting this picture ... I took it just recently, and not far from where I live. It was before we had all this cold weather that we are currently experiencing; I like to look at it for many reasons - to warm up from the winter, primarily! This scene also reminded me of my childhood, when I used to go out on my grandmother's fire escape in Brooklyn on a summer's day, and watch the world go by. There were even still some horse-drawn wagons, back then, amazingly. I feel privileged to have seen them.
ReplyDeleteIt's cold over here also but so far no snow. I can also remember horses pulling drays from the local brewery
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young we lived in one of the slum areas of the town.
ReplyDeleteL. S. Lowry the painter lived in a hotel not far from where we lived, he made sketches of the slum clearance and had a cup of tea in our house a few times.
The two up two down, as they were called, that we lived in was 23 Back Millam (or Millum) Terrace, it was the last house to be pulled down and we were the last to move out.
There was an article in the local newspaper about it being the last house demolished.
Thanks Miriam, as you suggested in facebook, I have posted the following comment from facebook here.
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Here is another snippet of my family history.
For many years my mothers side of the family lived in Monkwearmouth, on the north side of the river Wear in Sunderland.
For years I have been researching the details of the 10 thousand or so soldiers from the Sunderland area that were killed in the First World War.
One of those soldiers killed was David Jackson my Grandfather's brother, who was killed in the Battle of the Somme.
The first Army records I found of Dave's claimed (mistakenly) that he was born in Sunderland.
A little later I found census records that recorded Dave's place of birth as being the USA and then later still I found records that show he was born in New York.
For years I have tried without success to find out when my Great Grandfather, Michael Jackson moved to America.
I can only guess that he lived in New York for a few year and then moved back to England and resettled back in Monkwearmouth because my Grandfather Arthur Jackson who is younger than Dave was born in Monkwearmouth.
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BTW Monkwearmouth is not pronounced as it is spelt - it is pronounded Monk-We-Are-Mouth