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08 April 2018

Domestic archaeology

The current phase of  renovations at Tom and Gemma's flat involve taking down the bedroom ceiling. These dusty items had lain lost and hidden for nearly 80 years ....
Cigarette cards, playing cards, a studio photograph, and ...


... a cinema programme for February 1939. Later that year the Plaza Cinema closed*

This is the ceiling in which these fragments of ephemera languished. Above it is not just the staircase to the two upper flats but also a noisy floor - redoing the ceiling (it was lath and plaster) completely gives a chance to add sound insulation and rewiring -
Those stairs will be concealed in cupboards that will surround the bed and its headboard, and the en suite is almost ready for the fixtures to be installed.

*(Crouch End had another cinema, the Hippodrome, which also suffered bomb damage in WW2 but whose facade still stands.)

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3 comments:

  1. irene macwilliam8 April 2018 at 18:43

    so exciting unearthing these items. Are tom and Gemma going to put a few items so someone else in the future will have their excitements?

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  2. Sandy8 April 2018 at 18:57

    And the playing card on the right is Disney's Snow White. The Queen and the Huntsman.

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  3. patty a.9 April 2018 at 12:14

    Scarface caught my eye. I can't tell you how many time I have watched the version with Al Pacino. I will have to try the library and see if they have the original Scarface. I bet there is a lot less swear words in it! LOL!!

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