Surreal to think that one of my women was living in this street before her death. She would've walked that path daily and more than likely in a constant drunken daze.

(Mary Ann Street • Cardiff • 1893) #Wales #History

Here is another one of the same street. It shows a child playing in the street barefooted.

(Mary Ann Street • Cardiff • 1893) #Wales #History

The Life of Honest Carrie Gilmore | @upsetvictorians

Carrie, one of the inhabitants of Mary Ann Street, was tragically killed in 1907.

"She got drinking with some sailors and ended the night taking one of them to her rough sleeping spot."

https://upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2019/07/looking-through-carrie-gilmores-eyes.html #Wales

Women selling their wares

(Cottrell Road • Roath • 1894)

#Cardiff #History