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I recently spent an afternoon watching and rewatching an Edison film from 1901 of Morecambe. The images, probably together with the narrator's voice and accompanying music, kept drawing me back. I couldn't keep my eyes off the faces of the people, paricularly the SHUMS but also the man twirling his umbrella (or parasol), the one-legged man with his crutch, the ladies pushing their strollers, one guy in the crowd who looked like he was amused and probably had some interesting comments to make. It's just really interesting to see this slice of life 110 years ago. So then I had to go to Google Maps and locate it. I then also had to go to the street level view and travel the same route virtually today. It's curious to see not nearly so many people there now but it was a little startling to see another man on crutches. I paused when I saw the WWI memorial near the jetty and realized that the cute little SHUMS in the Edison film likely would have fought in the Somme or somewhere fifteen years later.
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