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20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Twelve

4th December 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Mystery Album, we enjoyed the briefest of ports of call in Copenhagen. As we turn another century-old Photex Expandable Album page we find ourselves re-visiting the world of steel wheel, steel rail [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eleven

27th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

As we turn another page of our Mystery Album, it is not too difficult to identify the next sepia print. Any Puffin who has ever strolled along Federiksgade in the direction of Rosenborg Slot, perhaps [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Ten

20th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

In this instalment of Mystery Album, some of our wealthy mystery family are off for a walk in the Swaledale countryside. While the ladies are elsewhere doing lady things, stout shoes (rather than walking boots) [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Seven

30th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

In part four of Mystery Album, I speculated that the above photograph (taken by our mystery family aboard the wherry Palace) was of a Norfolk Broads maltings. Judging by the order of the photos, it [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Five

16th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, our well-travelled Mystery Album photographers took us to South Walsham on a Norfolk Broads wherry holiday. We were left tied up at the present day mooring of Lord Fairford. Since then, the ladies [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Four

9th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Having exhausted the train photographs to the middle of our mystery album, with care we shall turn its century-old leaves to the front. Those locomotive photos were from 1925, therefore the next set of reproductions [more…]

19th Century

Mystery Album, Part Two

25th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

A mystery photo album has fallen into my hands. One that has raised many questions and set a difficult puzzle. No doubt Puffins can help me solve the enigma. But for the moment, let’s allow [more…]

19th Century

Mystery Album, Part One

18th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

A mystery album has fallen into my possession presenting a number of fascinating puzzles and thus far unanswered questions. Featuring a family, most certainly of wealth and importance, no captions are written beneath or on [more…]

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