#uncle cyril

[distantflights]

The Damned House of Hajn (Jiří Svoboda, 1989)

[dubmill]

Lymington Avenue, London N22; 17.9.2017 (At some stage after we’d lost touch with them, Auntie Renie and her son, my cousin Terry, moved here. Uncle Cyril [Romano – originally Salvatore Romano] had died in 1973, which I only learned today. Renie and Terry both died in 1999.)

[dubmill]

Langham Road, Turnpike Lane, London; 27.2.2021 (Auntie Renie and Uncle Cyril lived further down here, in a prefab. Auntie Renie and my mother fell out after my grandparents’ deaths and never spoke to each other again. I found out Auntie Renie moved to Lymington Avenue in Wood Green and died in 1999.)

[dubmill]

Langham Road, London N15; 17.9.2017 (This is where the prefab stood.)

[dubmill]

Langham Road, London N15; 2.7.2018 (I remember looking up at this when I was a child, in the garden of the prefab.)

[roserosette]

The Damned House of Hajn, 1988, Jiří Svoboda

[roserosette]

Sonia possessed kisses her prayer book, smears lipstick around her face and teeth, writhes in her wedding dress, tears open cushions and covers herself in feathers. The Damned House of Hajn, 1988, Jiří Svoboda

[roserosette]

The Damned House of Hajn, 1988, Jiří Svoboda