SE21 Upper Sydenham, Dulwich, West Dulwich
Choking not waving |
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Dulwich has a number of big victorian houses many of which are converted into flats and this was the case too in the 1970's when my mother had a flat there in the very top of a large house. Being a Londoner she knew nothing of the other occupants of the house except for certain peculiarities in their individual goings out and their comings in. She was, one day, looking out of the window when the sash broke and the window collapsed like a guillotine trapping her head and hands outside the building. |
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Her shouts to passers by, for she lived alone, were either ignored or else they thought she was waving and waved back. I am not sure how she eventually got free but like everything else in her life it was almost certainly down to her own ingenuity rather than anyone else. Her predicament seems to me to express the isolation of the flat dweller in this part of London. |
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