The estate my father was born, 1908. I hadn't been there for 50 years - but both buildings are still there! And more: an old familiar name still owns it, you can have a nice holiday with the horses, and inside the farmhouse is still that step to break your neck!
On the ±1930 photo below: left my father, right his twin-brother.
Today I had the Praktica + 28mm Albinar
(on rather unsharp FP4 -
I noticed yesterday. Or shall we call that "soft"?)
The small coloured one, the dwelling-house, isn't mine. On the also thirties (top), in front of that house: the new (the picture was made at the funeral of his brother Theodore) paterfamilias, my granduncle. The boss - no tie. In the middle (with a cigarette!): my dad.
(Like to see more of the family?
Look at facebook, Erwin Janssen Ruijs.)
btw: Young Joris Ivens (see below) made his very first film (Wigwam, 1912) probably in the woods of the estate.
A bit of time travel.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI agree with you John, it's like stepping back in time! Nice!
BeantwoordenVerwijderen...and in my case: stumbling back in time.
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