A little about home archeology, World war II and making a garden in a ruin.
The picture above, is from 1905. The building in front, was demolished in 1964 after my partners great grandfather died. The other building was removed long before that, I think. If this house, had been there in those days, it would have been behind the photographers back.
After they tored the building, they apparently emtied some loads of sand over the ruins, so when we arrived, there was some stones and a sand pile there. The stonepath didn’t show. Nowadays there is an outhouse/stockhouse placed at the left of the stonepath.
The first summer we lived here, we cut down the grass and weeds in the area, and when we cleaned it up, we suddenly found a large slate stone. « That is nice» - I thougt, « we can have a nice pot of flowers there, and a nice place to sit» . Then I dug some more, and under 10-25 cm of grass, mold and sand, there were more flagstones.
The next summer we continued, and there were stones all over. My partner/boyfriend did a big job of moving sand from the ruins one night - he is a sound engineer, and have a somewhat strange circadian rhytm, and thanks to the midnightsun, a longhaired, beardy man, digging in an old ruin, in the middle of the night, doesen`t look as suspicious as one could think. ;)
Why world war II has anything to do with this>?
During the war, the old house in the first Picture, is said to have been used as an infirmary at one point, it could have been unde the battle of Gratangen , during some dramatic days in april 1940.
My partners other gteat grandfather, lived on a small farm nearby. In mai 1. 1940, he and his son tried to get the horse in safety from German bombers, who shot at them. - they all died.
The same day, the Germans sank this ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Dronning_Maud_(1925),
some kilometres away ftom the farm.
Nowadays she is a popular diving target.
some kilometres away ftom the farm.
Nowadays she is a popular diving target.
I think we could find a somewhat related Music video, as we say goodbye.
Kath.
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