14 February 2024

Butchershop window, laundry, and hats/caps


Three images from a very interesting gallery of photos from the Lake District in the nineteenth century.  Lots to think about regarding that array of meat, and this one of laundry drying across a broad street with no vehicle traffic -


- and this one illustrating the ubiquity of hats and caps:


Each embed cropped for size/emphasis, and there's more at the link.

7 comments:

  1. The Vitafer window display caught my eye with the anti German “Germ-Huns”, as well as the “Brain Fag” (not fog). Turns out that Brain Fag Syndrome was a thing and is not Brain Fog,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fag_syndrome

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  2. The last picture (above) is approximately take from here - https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1142809,-3.2315059,3a,47.5y,137.96h,92.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKswFV0XlafK3Ell4ukeY8A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
    Sloop St doesn't seem to exist any more, and much of Anson St (the other two pics above) has been redeveloped.

    Barrow is an odd place being very isolated as there's only really one way in or out of it, the A590.

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    1. I clicked your link and zoomed out. Looks like some interesting nature preserves offshore. Would be nice to visit in good weather.

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  3. Love the hats! I cannot see a single one with an ad on it ... and they are there for the opening of a library!

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  4. I would suggest that most are not wearing hats: they're wearing flat caps; note the single brim in the front as opposed to a full brim (like the two men in the foreground). Perhaps channelling Abe Simpson, according the Wikipedia entry, it was the style of the times:
    "In the 19th and early 20th centuries, when men predominantly wore some form of headgear, flat caps were commonly worn throughout Great Britain and Ireland." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_cap

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    1. You are quite correct. Title and text amended accordingly. Thanks.

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  5. I find the almost complete absence of women in the bottom picture striking, but sadly typical of the era. The women were home doing the washing?

    Many women then did work outside the home, but seem to have had less leisure to spend time wandering about and watching happenings.

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