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Subject: [Leica] Week 15
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Tue Apr 18 14:45:43 2006
References: <4445491D.3010706@wanadoo.nl> <006001c66328$287dc2d0$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <4445569F.6010104@gmx.de> <44455883.1060703@wanadoo.nl> <44455C5D.5080703@gmx.de>

How small the world is.
I'm walking where you had lunch.
Steve Barbour and I meeting on a Parisian bridge.
Long live the internet.

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema


Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Then I know exactly where it is, (Off Shelton Street) , there used to be 
> (maybe still is) a take-away on the corner that sold Pies n' Peas and 
> Savaloy sausages. I used to get back there in the summer vacations and 
> helped my sister and Bro-in-law setting up the  "Acme Gallery" 
> exhibitions and  we used to get our lunches there.
> Douglas
> 
> Michiel Fokkema wrote:
> 
>> Must be around Covent garden.
>> I didn't walked a lot on the south bank.
>> The last picture was made very close to Covent garden. You can see a 
>> part of it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michiel Fokkema
>>
>>
>> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>> If you take a look at the windows below the beam this is very 
>>> probably an old weaving loft, or perhaps a tailors "sweat-shop" 
>>> (Could even be a cigar rollers shop). As there was only gas or candle 
>>> light at the time these houses were built the best use had to be made 
>>> of natural light.You still find quite a few corners like this in the 
>>> East End (I lived in Bow, during 1973), just south of the Thames, and 
>>> on the south bank, behind the warehouses. Though I must say that this 
>>> alley looks very familiar and could be just around the corner from 
>>> Covent Garden.
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michiel,
>>>>
>>>> I'm unfamiliar with city life, but it appears that those buildings 
>>>> are very closely set together.  Is the high beam in the second photo 
>>>> used to hoist large furniture items to the upper floors?
>>>> The Rollei does a beautiful job.  If it were not such a pain to get 
>>>> the film processed, I would be tempted.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
>>>>
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