It was so dull yesterday i saw everything in black and white..off i trot to the supermarket down the road with my trusty trolley!I'm much too old now to think about what i look like.I ofton think about what this little area would have looked like a hundred year ago. It was obviously an affluent area in the past ,you just have to look at the magnificent houses that line the main street into town.
We have so many lovely churches crammed into such a small space too.
There all commercial property's now.But i cant help wondering what it would have been like in Victorian or Edwardian times. I'm a hopeless romantic! an ardent watcher of upstairs ,downstairs!anything period i love, the poets of old, Keats ,Tennyson,Dunne the list is endless! The artists of yesteryear !! Everyday things that my great grandparents would have used!
How many people lived , loved cried ,the class divide fascinates me !History fascinates me!! when i home schooled Rosa that was one of the delights, each week delving into the past my love rubbed off as she too loves history, I have quite a collection of vintage cameras and photos and albums which i have trollied through life, from house to house clinging on to for dear life,I'm well known in my family as a collector of rubbish!!! the cheek of it!! Ive so many vintage photos its unreal!
I ofton take out these albums of anonymous faces that to me look like old friends! An album from 1910 of a family holiday in tyne side, a thick heavy album of photographs of someones life at Cambridge university, a Victorian album of a family full of stunning cabinet prints!Rubbish i think not!!!
I love this house with its steps leading up to the door Who lived and died there? What tragedy's were lived out between the wars!!
What better than a good old British postbox!!!
This brought me well and truly back to reality!!!Parked in the supermarket car park ,i had to titter!!Isn't it brilliant!!My kids are massive fans of the Simpson's and this person must be too!!!
Back to reality!!!
My shopping paid for!
Off i trolley back!!
Down the road......
With little bits of yesteryear still left over! Back to my 100 year old tiny working class terrace house that holds everthing that is dear to me...the only things in life i truly need.........with its leaking pipes and broken lights real shabby chic because we cant afford to fix it up ...but the place i love and call home...............
I recognised all those buildings Fiffypunkle excellent pics as always hugsssssss xxxxxxxxxx
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