A TRIANGLE FROM KRAGELUND

ANDERS ”TOP” ANDERSEN
What is a triangle doing in a square book about well-crafted blankets…?
(It is always possible that it has lost its bearings…) but it does provide an apt little soundscape to accompany the yellowing archival photos.
Anders “Top” Andersen (1855 – 1953) from Kragelund in Mid-Jutland may have played at dances held for the paper-production workers at Klostermølle, guests at the spa bath facility, or the freshly-bathed customers from the bathhouse…though he never did make it to Tinnet Krat.
The world was, after all, much larger back then.

Today, Anders ‘Top’ Andersen’s music is carried forward by performer Maja Kjær Jacobsen.
You can listen to her playing the triangle here: http://majasmusik.weebly.com/medier.html


’Lulu’ in 1904 or earlier. Back when a motorboat route passed from Alken Harbour to Klostermølle carrying wood one way and paper pulp the other.
Photo: S.A. Schouboe Madsen, Alken Archive

Spa guests at the balcony of Skovvilla.
KCSB Archive

The first pool attendant Anton Nielsen 1920-52 lathers up pool assistant Jørgen Ditlevsen. He was to become the next pool attendant.
Silkeborg Archive

Swimming pools by the source of Gudenå Stream in Tinnet Krat. The pools were established in 1928 by Sofus Clausen ”Tinnetgaard”. They were closed down in 1947.
Give-Egnen’s Museum
EN TREKANT FRA KRAGELUND

ANDERS ”TOP” ANDERSEN
What is a triangle doing in a square book about well-crafted blankets…?
(It is always possible that it has lost its bearings…) but it does provide an apt little soundscape to accompany the yellowing archival photos.

Anders “Top” Andersen (1855 – 1953) from Kragelund in Mid-Jutland may have played at dances held for the paper-production workers at Klostermølle, guests at the spa bath facility, or the freshly-bathed customers from the bathhouse…though he never did make it to Tinnet Krat.
The world was, after all, much larger back then.

Today, Anders ‘Top’ Andersen’s music is carried forward by performer Maja Kjær Jacobsen.
You can listen to her playing the triangle here: http://majasmusik.weebly.com/medier.html

’Lulu’ in 1904 or earlier. Back when a motorboat route passed from Alken Harbour to Klostermølle carrying wood one way and paper pulp the other.
Photo: S.A. Schouboe Madsen, Alken Archive

Spa guests at the balcony of Skovvilla.
KCSB Archive

The first pool attendant Anton Nielsen 1920-52 lathers up pool assistant Jørgen Ditlevsen. He was to become the next pool attendant.
Silkeborg Archive

Swimming pools by the source of Gudenå Stream in Tinnet Krat. The pools were established in 1928 by Sofus Clausen ”Tinnetgaard”. They were closed down in 1947.
Give-Egnen’s Museum