20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Two
The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]
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20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Twenty
My own (reprinted) 1887 Bradshaw’s Guide shows an eclectic array of east coast shipping services connecting ourselves with continental Europe before the days of the noisy and inconvenient aeroplane. Goole to Dunkirk for 15 shillings [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Nineteen
Having visited Helsinki Central Station, nearby shopping streets and the cathedral, our mystery family will have made their way back to the ferry at Satama, pausing to have their photograph taken beside the distinctive dockside [more…]
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Mystery Album, Part Eighteen
From Helsinki Central Station, a five-minute walk takes one past the Ateneum and along Ateneuminkuja and Yliopistonatu to Senate Square, at the north end of which and up some steps sits Helsinki Cathedral. Billed as [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Seventeen
Last time on Mystery Album we decided Helsinki Central Station showed the world a particular kind of Art Deco that stamped on some of the movement’s expectations. Purists half agree, preferring it transitionary from Art [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album , Part Sixteen
Last time on Mystery Album I forgot to tell Puffins that the first Swedish monarch, King Gustav VI Adolph, to be interred at Kungliga Begravningsplatsen and away from Riddarholmen Church (apart from the wayward Christina) [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Fifteen
Last time on Mystery Album our mystery posh mystery photographer family looked out from a Stockholm City Hall corridor, next to the Golden Hall used for the Nobel Prize winner’s ball, towards the Riddarholmen where [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Fourteen
On last week’s Mystery Album we surmised our mystery posh mystery family of travelling photographers de-shipped at the dockside in Stockholm sometime after 1925. For those wondering (Postcard from Lille style), are we there yet? [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Thirteen
In the previous episode of Mystery Album, we visited Gotland, gateway to the Baltic and Sweden’s largest island, which lies 100 miles south of Stockholm and 225 miles northeast of Malmo. The above near century-old [more…]