Hello Fellow Sepians, I thought I would submit this picture taken from the Our Miramichi Heritage Photo site. It depicts three girls around our park fountain in what was known as Newcastle, around the turn of the century. We have amalgamated into a city called Miramichi since early 1990's.
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A beautiful photo. I wish white dresses with black stockings had been fashionable in my time. I like the look.
ReplyDeletePark fountains are still popular. They look cool and refreshing in the summer, but sad and abandoned at his time of year when the water is off. for the winter.
ReplyDeleteLots of old New England towns have fountains like that -- nice to know that my neighbors to the north have 'em, too. It's a wonderful photo, Rosie!
ReplyDeleteWhat a superb centrepiece that fountain is - a lovely photo.
ReplyDeleteLove the clothes and the fountain is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteA wonderfully atmospheric old photograph. Miramichi sounds much more interesting than Newcastle.
ReplyDeleteFountains like this make a fine backdrop for a photo, almost a theme by themselves.
ReplyDelete"...A theme by themselves.", what a great idea! I wish I had a fountain like this one in my nearby park instead of the strange spray of water in the middle of a sluggsh pond.
ReplyDeleteLovely photo. I can imagine those girls skipping off to go enjoy some lemonade or ice cream.
ReplyDeletePragmatic me is thinking of how those dark stockings were held up...also after the discussion of socks falling down in shoes of more modern girls on another blog. Anyone know how the girls kept those knee length stocking up?
ReplyDeleteI used to wear a thick rubber band and I used to gather the stocking top and roll it down over the rubber band. I had to pull it up quite often......
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