This is the lane in the Jewish quarter that led to the Alliance school. It shows the tradespeople Violette mentions (from left to right): the tcheraakh khashab – wood-turner – who worked a kind of lathe making poles for bannisters, spindles, chair legs and so on; Abul ’ambah (‘the pickle man’) who sold nothing but the snacks the children so much enjoyed – laffa ’amba, a pitta-like bread wrapped around some mango pickle; Abul fiussah, the pressing man – today we’d call him the dry-cleaner, but one specialising in headgear, complete with copper moulds heated by a petrol burner. Standing on the right of the lane is the man with the sandouq el-welayaat: a magic lantern with a scroll, which he turned while narrating a story about each picture, starting every time with ‘Shoof ’indak Ya salaam!’ (‘Look here, what a wonder!’).