Comments on: Anna Skrine, custodian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/02/06/anna-skrine-custodian/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Susan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/02/06/anna-skrine-custodian/#comment-251 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:17:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=4592#comment-251 I keep coming back to this entry to look at your photo of the floor, musing on the feet that have walked there: gowns and kid slippers sweeping past, children’s boots clattering after some dropped toy, the halting steps of an elder, punctuated by the determined thunk of a cane. Perhaps the children’s boots and elder’s cane belonged to the same person, a life span spent going in and out of that sturdy front door. So many lives echoing down the centuries. I am glad that the floor boards will echo still.

Susan

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