Damstredet
Crooked cobbled lane of low, colourful wooden houses from the early nineteenth century.
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This guide to Damstredet in Oslo starts with a Swedish gardener, a patch of rhubarb and the small wooden house that picked up a very unlikely nickname. It follows the poor families who settled this steep slope outside the old city from the late seventeen hundreds, and the milk shop and corner grocery that fed them. Best heard standing on the cobbles near number five.
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