Mr. Pudding, from Yorkshire Pudding, likes to take a look at things that are very different like, my home village. He finds these odd places and lets his imagine run.
My home village is Esk, Saskatchewan. Well it was my home village. Today it is a ghost town with a population of 0.
At it's largest it had a population of about 50.
My grandparents retired to Esk in the late 40's. They had no electricity and water. They had a wood cook stove and wood heater for winter heat which was not great. Grandma had some chickens.
They bought flour, sugar, salt , coffee and a few more items at the local store. . They bought the few clothes in the next town which had a dry goods store.
Now there is an abandoned church which interests Mr Pudding. Did I go to Sunday school in that church etc. You can watch a 6 minute video to see what an abandoned village is like. The abandoned church is featured.
Our family did not attend that church but my brother was married in it in 1967 and it was closed shortly after that and the building was sold. Somebody bought it with the view of developing it as a house. It never happened. It would have made a very good house. The guy lived in a house trailer in the church yard and later moved away . The video is probably from 20 years ago and I'm not sure if the church is still there.
As children we were brought to the church and were given inoculations.(Not on Sundays)The late 1940's saw the immunization for communicable diseases. You got a series of shots for each disease so we attended the church often for health reasons.
Now at one time this village of 50 people had 3 churches. All were Christian denominations. Why they had to be 3 separate denominations I'll never know? There was Lutheran, Baptist and United Evangelical Brethern. They did get along in the community.
I realize that it may be very difficult for people from almost any part of the world to understand what I have described. There are many differences in this world and this little village had it's differences.
