Colour pictures of Oxford in the early days of Summer, 1924...
“The trees are coming into leaf, like something almost being said…”
from The Trees, Philip Larkin
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Pictures (c) Musee Albert-Kahn.
For more of Albert Kahn’s images, see David Okuefuna’s “The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn“.
2 comments to Colour pictures of Oxford in the early days of Summer, 1924…
Lady Crafthole
March 21st, 2024 at 12:16 pm
“Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman’s day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”
— Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
“Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman’s day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”
— Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
*sighs*
*contemplates. finds cannot add to* Yes.