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Some that got away
This took me by surprise. I pass the ‘Mind’ shop twice a day as I walk to and from work, but I rarely go in and browse. It’s a charity shop, one of several on this stretch of Cotham Hill, … Continue reading
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Cat in the Chinese countryside
This one of several score portraits in the albums of Shanghai detective chief William Armstrong. They were taken in the years before he left China in 1927, when he was on houseboat holidays west of Shanghai in the Taihu region … Continue reading
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Tagged cat, photograph albums, women
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