Now I am a great fan of the family snap, not least because behind each is a family story and in particular a special moment.
But they can also reveal the story of a place.
And so it is with this one which was taken sometime around 1983 when we had all taken ourselves off to the Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich.
I found it in a box of slides along with a large collection of negatives which had sat in our cellar for almost forty years.
It is a lovely picture of some of our family but it also shows the area opposite the pub which back then did for a pub garden.
You crossed the road where there was a bench and when that was full there was always the low wall beside the river.
In the late 60s it had been our local and on warm summer’s evening we would sit on that wall as the sun went down listening to the occasional clunk of barges banging together from the swell left by a passing pleasure boat.
By the time we sat outside the pub there were some brick and stone seats.
The picture compliments and earlier one taken a few years earlier, which I posted a few days ago.
I had wondered what the place looked like today and Roger sent over an image from google, but I won’t use that given that it is copyright and so will wait for our Jillian to wander down and do the business.
I know the yard has gone and the power station is hidden by a new development so it would be good to see the site as it is now.
Location; Greenwich
Pictures; outside the Cutty Sark, 1983 & 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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| By the Cutty Sark, 1983 |
And so it is with this one which was taken sometime around 1983 when we had all taken ourselves off to the Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich.
I found it in a box of slides along with a large collection of negatives which had sat in our cellar for almost forty years.
It is a lovely picture of some of our family but it also shows the area opposite the pub which back then did for a pub garden.
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| By the Cutty Sark, 1979 |
In the late 60s it had been our local and on warm summer’s evening we would sit on that wall as the sun went down listening to the occasional clunk of barges banging together from the swell left by a passing pleasure boat.
By the time we sat outside the pub there were some brick and stone seats.
The picture compliments and earlier one taken a few years earlier, which I posted a few days ago.
I had wondered what the place looked like today and Roger sent over an image from google, but I won’t use that given that it is copyright and so will wait for our Jillian to wander down and do the business.
I know the yard has gone and the power station is hidden by a new development so it would be good to see the site as it is now.
Location; Greenwich
Pictures; outside the Cutty Sark, 1983 & 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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