An Old Street in Copenhagen
Our Savior’s Church in Prinsesse Street, Copenhagen
Nearby this church, one of my paternal great grandfathers lived in the 1880s.
Thankfully, some streets look like they have never changed. Amagergade in Copenhagen is one of them. When you see an old photo from the spot, there are many people and no cars. Today, that’s an impossibility. When every fun thing is under lockdown, we still have the streets and nature to explore.
The house where my great grandfather lived in the 1880s 
A former pub at Amagergade 
The house where my great grandfather lived in the 1880s. One of his jobs was to lighten the street lamps. 
Amagergade looking to the Christianshavn Citadel 
A view into a back yard in the street 
Asylum for small children in the street 
Amagergade looking to the Christianshavn Citadel 
A former stockhouse at Amagergade 
Asylum for small children
My great grandfather Niels Andersen had ‘Immigrated’ from Jutland and probably never went back. His young wife died 24 years of age, and after that loss, he found a new wife who had come from Sweden, where people were poorer than they were in Denmark. Without these incidents, I would not have been here. He lived in the yellow house in Amagergade when he married my Swedish grandmother.
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What a feeling to walk in the footsteps of your ancestors!
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Thank you again for visiting my post. That little street is a ‘history pocket.’ as you can guess, Henry is brewing on a post in more depths
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