title: Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs (Volume 1)
author:  Tattered and Lost 
description: Tattered and Lost is the online identity of one collector of vernacular photography, found photos, vintage snapshots, ephemera, or whatever else you prefer to call them. At the website Tattered and Lost Photographs she shares some of the images shes found at flea markets, antique stores, and estate sales. Seeing the world from a quirky point of view helps her to make sense of some of the odd images she finds.
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  # By The Pricking of My Thumbs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # By The Pricking of My Thumbs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Book II - THE HOUSE ON THE CANAL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # By The Pricking of My Thumbs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 7
  
  
  THE FRIENDLY WITCH
  
  
  Before leaving the next morning, Tuppence took a last careful look at the
  picture hanging in her room, not so much to fix its details firmly in her
  mind, but to memorize its position in the landscape. This time she would be
  seeing it not from the window of a train but from the road. The angle of
  approach would be quite different. There might be many hump-backed bridges,
  many similar disused canals - perhaps other houses looking like this one (but
  that Tuppence refused to believe).
  
  
  The picture was signed, but the signature of the artist was illegible. All
  that could be said was that it began with B.
  
  
  Turning away from the picture, Tuppence checked her paraphernalia: an A.B.C.
  and its attached railway map; a selection of ordnance maps; t