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The Sunday porch: County Armagh

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Bridget and Maynard Sinton at their family home of Ballyards, County Armagh, June 17, 1921, by H. Allison & Co. Photographers, via Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Commons on flickr.

That retractable striped awning emerging from the terrace roof looks very sleek and was brand new.  A ca. 1920 photo of the house in this biography of the children’s father shows the terrace with no cover. (You can read a brief history of awnings here.)

Ballyards was built in 1872 and sold to the father, a linen manufacturer, in 1908. He almost doubled its size and called it “Ballyards Castle.”

The children playing in a sandpile. (This photo has been printed in reverse from the others.)

Maynard was killed in WWII, but Bridget (age 7 in these photos) lived until 1975.

Life in gardens: tree swing

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Blue Gums, Sydney, Powerhouse Museum“Blue gums,” probably in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1900, by Charles Kerry & Co., via Tyrrell Photographic Collection, Powerhouse Museum Commons on flickr.

Despite the original label, the large trees are “probably river red gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis),” according to a note about the photo by the Museum.

Click on the photo for a larger view.

Life in gardens: beach swing

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beach rope, c. 1900, library of congress“Children swinging on pier rope at beach,” between 1900 and 1920, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Life in gardens: maypole swing

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Maypole swing, R. Lee, via Library of Congress“Children swinging on maypole, La Forge, Missouri. Project school at Southeast Missouri Farms,” August 1938, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Life in gardens: tree swing

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Study with swing, 1910, G. Kasebier, via LoC“The swing, a study of Mrs. Turner and her children,” 1910, by Gertrude Käsebier, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Mrs. Turner is probably Käsebier’s daughter, Hermine, who took over her mother’s photography studio in the 1920s.