Open the door

This metal door is set into a farm wall, just outside the farmhouse. It’s about  eighteen inches to two foot wide and about twelve inches tall.  It’s not big enough for a farmer to leave produce in to be picked up by someone, far too small for milk churns, and there’s not much room for […]

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Lois

My cousin very generously gave me this photograph of my great-grandmother Lois. I have no idea when it was taken,. although I do know who framed the photograph; Arthur Staples, a practical carver, gilder and picture frame maker, who had his business at 201 High Road, Kilburn, NW (now a Lebanese restaurant) two doors from Willesden […]

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