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Sunday, January 12, 2014

The Blue Door
I like this little yellow house. You will find it at Kvarnvägen (Mill Road), in Tungelsta. Many years ago a priest lived here. Since then at least two dentists have done the same. When I took a photo here nine years ago the door was brown. Today it stands out a bit more with that blue color.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Tungelsta Värdshus You learn something every day. My aunt stopped by for coffee and cake today. She told me a bit of local history that I didn't know. This building across the road from me has been a restaurant for the last decade or so. During those years the house have been rebuilt a couple of times, (this photo is from earlier in the week). Before that it was a private house for many years and back in the 1970s a local teacher, Ulla Nygren lived there. What I didn't know was that my family owned the land here between 1908 and some time in the 1950s. Kerstin told me that when she was a little girl her parents grew raspberries here. That was around 1948 or so. A couple of years later a butcher from Handen, called Franzén, bought the land and built a new home for himself, his wife, and his three daughters. They also set up a butchers shop here. The store was then bought by another family, The Danielsson's. They opened a grocery store here and also a cafe that my mother used to visit,possibly with my aunt as they were school mates.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Manhem is no more

Manhem Rebuilt


This property in Tungelsta is know as Manhem. The house was bought in 1937 by Otto Arrhenius, who was a gardener. Before that it was a farm here. My mother went to school with one of his daughters, Karen. My mother used to visit the house and she has told me that it was a peculiar house, with doors and rooms where you didn't expect them to be. Manhem has changed owners a few times over the years, and it also stood abandoned for some time. Then it was suddenly being renovated by a new owner who was planning to use it as a summer house. When the renovation was nearly finished, tragedy struck when a fire completely destroyed the house. I took the top photo some time after that fire. I took the second photo a couple of days ago. A new house resembling the old now stands on the same spot as the original house but at the moment no one lives here.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Råttfällan

As a member of the historical association I am sometimes asked to photograph old cottages for upcoming books. This is one such place. This property dates back to 1741. The name is a bit unusual. It is called The Mousetrap or Råttfällan in Swedish. It is located at Alby, a rural part of Haninge. The story behind the name is that there once lived a boatswain here who hated rats and he apparently made a lot of mousetraps. That same legend also says that he made traps for roe deers and elks! On my visit I had a lengthy chat with the current owner Mr. Svanäng. He is a retired farmer who has lived her for eleven years.
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