Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 6th February, 2024)

Every genuine stain glass window , true to its very being , holds a clue to a journey ..
for others to find … the eternal jigsaw of how we see the light , the colours and the dark . Left behind by others before, they ask us do you wish to find when you look, or just turn away from the history and truth that lies within it ?
For many when the light shines through the window it will mean nothing
but for a few, their souls will ignite and they will have no options left , but to begin …

This always takes my eye whenever I am up near Wigan Infirmary. There is just something about it that brings a smile. I have always liked pictures of windmills.

I love stained glass windows and that is gorgeous. I wonder what the significance is with the Dutch girl.

I was prompted to go back and take this photo by comments made by Irene Roberts (see Photo A Day 26th January).
The view from the inside with natural light behind is quite incredibly colourful. it might be featured one day.

What a beautiful stained glass window

The etched detail of the little Dutch girls face is just beautiful. Best seen from inside the building.

She doesn't look Dutch to me, I think she could be a Norfolk girl.

Nice to look at from the outside or for a short time inside, but living behind stained glass windows is horrible. Clear is best.

Nice one Colin, lovely glass and stonework, it's a credit to the builders who took pride in their work.

Sally, it's Dutch all over.
The clothes, the hat, the Windmill says it all.
Beautiful photo.

Sally, I don't think that they wore a Cloche Hat or Wooden Clogs in Norfolk. Helen of Troy, we might need your help with this?
I'm so glad the four birds in flight are not Pigeons!

The little 'flaps' either side of her white cap look Dutch
Thanks for getting close up Colin & try & exercise your charm for a photo from the inside !!

Garrys been on the sherry again....
Never Dutch, not Daffodils.

Garry, I've been to Norfolk and I've seen photos of Norfolk women gutting herring on the fishwharf who dressed the same as this lady, also Norfolk is full of windmills.

Yes, the girl's hat with the little flaps at the sides is Dutch. They were quite popular here in the 1930s....I have seen quite a few photos of little girls from that era wearing them at weddings, carnivals, galas etc.

Sally, it's a matter of opinion, I'll stay with Dutch, but respect your decision.
Who ever I'm right is. Don't talk stupid, I can drink Sherry from breakfast time until the cows come home, and still see and walk straight.

In the early 50’s as an infant at school I can remember a walking day outfit of turquoise taffeta with a little Dutch hat. It was the one year when it poured with rain at the Whit Monday Walks and everyone had to go home from the Market Square as it was called off. Our lovely outfits and hats were drenched. I can’t remember any other Whit Monday when it rained. Things that trigger memories due to the little Dutch hat.

Helen, I have already got the pictures, should yourself or anyone else want to see them drop me a line at:
colinptraynor@icloud.com, your contact details will be secure with me.

Did they wear Wooden Clogs in Norfolk? I think you find the flowers are Tulips and I think she is carrying churns of Milk, not Fish. All a matter of interpretation.
I think the window might be more late 1800’s as the Arts and Craft movement was between 1880 and 1920 but the seeds were sewn earlier by William Morris, The Glasgow School and others.
Please Google The Arts and Craft Movement.

There's a windmill in Haigh so she might be a Haigh milk maid, wearing a old dutch hat that she previously wore at a wedding.

If the coloured patterned glass is in a house door or a hallway or even in top window lights it always looks superb, and these are a really lovely set of leaded picture windows in a hallway, and I'd agree too with them being of a Dutch scene and with the girl wearing the traditional oorijzer cap.

Colin, with mentioning Pigeons you'll now have the Pigeon haters joining in with their madcap comments.

I can’t think of anything more beautiful than the sun shining on stained glass inside the home casting the jewelled colours inside. The same in a church….thats the effect you wouldn’t get outside. That’s why they are called leaded lights.

mr mark williams used to live there when i worked for him in 1959 in his butchers shop in standish gate

Veronica - church stained glass windows are made to be seen from the inside - these windows are made to be seen from the outside. True, they'll look very good from the inside when the sun shines through them - but they've obviously been installed to be admired by passers-by - especially when back-lit from the house lights at night.
They're called leaded lights because the glass sections are held together by lead beading.

Leaded window are a bugger to clean.

Only just seen your comment Reverend. Yes the colours on the outside do stand out more than the stained glass of Church windows. The colours are deeper on the Dutch girl. I didn’t know that but it is obvious really. Must have been more expensive as well.

Rev Long, if you drop me a line I will send you the pictures of the view from the inside, quite spectacular. my address is posted at 15:31 above.
In addition I have since learned that the Sawbridge family of butchers lived in the house, I was told that at some point they sold out the Mark Williams.