Captain Robert Huddle’s logbook: the epilogue
This rather melancholy epilogue to the logbook of Captain Robert Huddle - excerpts of which I have transcribed in other posts - finds the old seaman washed ashore in England, "a chronic invalid" on "a petty pension". The volume ends with a pasted-in photo of his residence in London in the year 1901: 63 Ravendsale Road, Stamford Hill. I have looked on Google Earth, and the building looks almost the same today. Robert Huddle's home in London, 1901. As the beginning to the end of this narrative I have attempted to set out in the preparatory…