Apologies for lack of commenting. i have a list of jobs as long as my arm and a target to get through them all before Nigel gets home (don't know why except that a deadline is good). One thing I'm trying to tick off is editing the photos I took of my aunt's photo album in the summer - before I start on next year's calendar and find a photo for my Christmas cards I want to get them sent off for printing. By the time I'd labelled them up, got completely distracted by some genealogy and sent a few off to my dad for ID confirmation my computing wrist was seized up. There is one photo of my great grandmother's sister and her eight children and within a couple of years her husband had died and she re-married and acquired another five and then had at least two more with her new husband. I knew they lived in a working class are of Liverpool called the Dingle so I Googled the address (32 Madryn Street) to see how much space they had for 15 people and it was a '2 up 2 down'. Mostly they would have been sent out to play and dad says there are stories of their mother clanging a bell to get them all in again. Anyway - I wasn't expecting to find a picture of the street because most of the slums have been demolished but it turns out that Ringo Starr was born at 9 Madryn Street so a small row of the original houses still remain!
PS I can add up - the eldest had moved out!
Bother you, Judith - now I'll have to start thinking about Xmas cards and putting a photo on them! Probably too late now to get them printed! These seed pods have a wonderful shape and colour!
What a wonderful story! My family all hail from Liverpool, in fact I was born there but we moved south when I was a few months old - similar kind of place as yours by the sound of it, but Anfield not the Dingle. We did however used to have a dog called Dingle after that area.
Genealogy can help you lose hours so easily. My grandmother was one of 17 children. She was number 10 in the family and the first girl. Two of the younger children were given the same name as older siblings who had already been killed in accidents in the timber cutting industry by the time they were born.
Big families they had in those days, Harrys dad was one of 19.......there is a picture of him over the fire in the dining room but none of the poor wife. She died after having the last one too poor woman.
The Dingle is a well known area of Liverpool...googled that Ringo came from there so there is documentation of the type of house.
Pretty lanterns......I love any textured pods or different stuff in a garden, Honesty is another good one.
@ubobohobo good gracious Margaret - and I think mine were badly off in the weaving trade. One of the daughters was a 'sweet wrapper' - I imagine that was safe!
@jantan@happypat oh it was dead rough in the Dingle. In fact my dad said the overhead railway was terrifying for a small boy because of all the shell-shocked, limbless old men. And Of course the big ships really did sail down the alley alley'o around there. I have to say that Madryn Street looked in good nick (apart from the windows being bricked up) - Victorian terraces like that go for £300K in Cambridge!
has a bit of 3D'ness about it judith, looks good to my eye. Dingle's is a derogatory term used by football supporters to describe small town supporters !
The Dingle is a well known area of Liverpool...googled that Ringo came from there so there is documentation of the type of house.
Pretty lanterns......I love any textured pods or different stuff in a garden, Honesty is another good one.