#Külmallika (Külmallikas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
Cold spring, cold source. Formerly plain old #Allika (1927-1958), and temporarily #Kalmuse (1940-1941). Now part of a hydrology-themed sector, see #Tiigi.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad

Old car, probably a 1970's 'classic vehicle' Lada VAZ, in Lätte, Tallinn.

"Telegrahic shrubbery": an entanglement of climbing-plants wrapped around a 'telegraph' pole and along its various cables creating a fence-like drapery of stems and occasional leaves. We wait until summer for its full bloom.

Tallinn streetsign displaying the extremely faded name Lätte. Presented as a rare example of poor streetsign ageing.

Plaque in honor of Alma Jeets (1896-1979), Estonian politician arrested by the NKVD in 1944 and sentenced to five years in a Siberian prison camp.

(A guide through Tallinn for German soldiers, with map, street index, 10 photos and short German-Estonian dictionary) by Dr. #FriedrichKlau, a book known for its haphazard rendering of local names, which may well have mistaken it for #Allika.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Lätte.

View along Lätte, Tallinn, from the Tatari end.

View along Lätte, Tallinn, from the Kentmanni end.

View along (what ought to be) a põik in Lätte, Tallinn, showing part of the rear of the building Tatari 21b, (See Tatari for front).

#Lätte (Läte)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Tatari
Source, spring, fountain. Southern #Estonian dialect for well. Named, like its parallel peer #Allika, after a spring in the courtyard of #Tatari 24. Renamed (1948?-1991) as Lätte A. during the Soviet occupation. Both streets claim its ancestor as
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#Allika (Allikas)
Spring, source, fountain, wellspring, fountainhead. After a spring located at the end of the road in the courtyard of #Tatari 24, mentioned as early as 14th C. Two streets claim ancestry from an earlier #Quellenstrasse, spring street: this one and #Lätte.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn