
Anyway, for what it's worth, here's my first attempt at colour popping! 6 Caroline Street, Saltaire, with its nice red front door. A round of applause, please! (I know - you've all been able to do that since you were knee-high to a grasshopper... never mind. I'm enjoying myself.)
I've looked up the 1871 census for 6 Caroline Street. It is one of the three-storey houses built as boarding houses. In 1871 it housed two families: Joshua Wilson (66) a cotton twister, his daughter Ann (31), a cotton weaver, and son John (28) a worsted weaver. Also, listed as 'boarders', were the young family of John Lund (29) a stone mason, with his wife Maria (24), a cotton weaver and their baby son Albert Edward, born in Saltaire 10 months before the census. (Although Salts was a worsted mill, it used cotton fibres as the warp thread through which the wool weft was woven to produce very fine cloth. I don't know if that explains the women's job titles. )
Glad to see you are enjoying the course. Photoshop has so much in it, I used to use it, then stopped. You're going to hate me; I don't like these colour pop, although I know that they can be useful sometimes. I think it was the filter effects in Photoshop and the way it made me get carried away with them that caused me to stop. Hey; it's all just a personal thing anyway.
ReplyDeleteYou did a fabulous job! That's some interesting history too.
ReplyDeleteReally like this! Such a jolly front door.
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