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share.google/images/liI… i have attached a street scene from Spital Fields Bethnal Green London England where my great-great-grandparents Joe&Anne Salmon bore Caroline Salmon b.1839 nee Caroline Stow d.1888 same London’s poor east-end silk weavers probably at home in the factory attics of Club Row & Petticoat Lane, by the Brick Lane Street Market along-by:lColumbia Road known for its flower market alongside Covent Garden and the fish and meat market at SmithField and Billingsgate, down by the Tower of London and rooms for Ministers of the Church & of the State. Parliament Square&Victoria trains from London Bridge, across where Sarah Stow nee Scotti met and married on the north shore of the Thames.

Along the Regents Union Canal Victoria Park and the suburbs of Islington&Edmonton. Across the Lea Vallay marshes river Lea below Walthamstow village & St Marys’ Church, the Ancield House from the 14-1500’s mud&wattle onto wooden frame Elizabethan, the 1st. From the Royal Court and hunting grounds of Enfield Chase and Chingford Plains, the Great Epping forest, to the sea. From the seas and oceans of the World, to the tenements between canal and docks filled with noxious fumes and gases from the factories ships and barges tha chugged away across the Atlantic from the 4-corners croneys of the Globe the Great British Empire, the largest by any measure Empire the world has ever seen, and may ever see, again, yet continues…across Europe:Romans latins Indo-European reading&writingfrom the Turkic and far distant places China and beyond…

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