Growing up in the Prussian fort? The Strugarek family
This is the fourth stop along the audio tour presenting the history of the Cathedral Island. For more information about the tour, please click here.
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1. Mrs Strugarek with children by their flat in the Cathedral Lock, the 1960s. Śródka Community Archive. Photo from the collection of Jan Strugarek.
2. The northern room was the brightest. On the right you can see an old fireplace. Photo by Łukasz Gdak.
3. The northern room in the Lock was the Strugarek Family’s flat. Photo by Łukasz Gdak.
4. Cathedral Lock’s neighbours, the Juszkiewicz Family (Alojzy Jauszkiewicz, the chauffeur of Poznań archbishops, is wearing a hat). Photo from 1945-1956, Śródka Community Archive, from the collection of Bożena Daczkus.
5. A group of altar boys carolling at the Archbishop’s Palace. Archbishop Antoni Baraniak is at the centre (9 January 1960). Śródka Community Archive. Photo from the collection of Krzysztof Przybył.
6. Perkun, Abp Antoni Baraniak’s Saint Bernard, was a playing companion of the local children and a frequent visitor to the Cathedral Lock’s yard. Beginning of the 1960s. Śródka Community Archive. Photo from the collection of Bożena Daczkus.
7. The Cathedral Lock and the Carnot wall circa 1983. The writing on the wall says: “Greetings from the underground”. It was later painted out by the communist police. Śródka Community Archive. Photo from the collection of Stanisław Rzymski.
The Strugareks with children by their accommodation in the Cathedral Lock, the 1950s. Śródka Community Archive. Photo from the collection of Jan Strugarek