The images in this post were run not long ago as part of The Amazing Lillian Herold Weber Collection – Part Four. Since then, with the help of the donor and my Brentwood correspondent, we’ve analyzed them a bit further. I think we have a clearer understanding of what we’re looking at now than we did back in November when I first posted these images.
The impetus for this reexamination is because I was preparing to print them and send them off into the world. I had planned to give digital copies to my contact at the Brentwood Historical Society, Dan Fitzgerald. This I was unable to do as his email address seems to have changed. Also, I wanted to give physical copies to my barber friends, Paul and Dan, whose business, Kings and Queens Salon is located within steps of the site where these photographs were first taken.
Knowing how sets of images such as these, digital or hard copy, tend to get separated years down the road, I wanted to make sure each image had all of the pertinent information that it could stand alone if need be. I’m just trying to make some future historian’s lives a bit easier.
Next post I’ll get back to the Emma Beauvais Thomas Grumley collection for there is still much more of it to be seen.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing these images again. It has occurred to me that I have quite a few different images of Manchester road throughout the years. Good fodder for an upcoming post.
Thankfully, spring is finally here. War news kind of takes the edge off of everything. Our neighborhoods are becoming very beautiful while whole towns are becoming completely destroyed in Ukraine. It just shouldn’t be. Pray that the madman is stopped before he can do much more damage.
Doug Houser March 22, 2022