Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

5 months ago

From ’41, there followed a series of name changes involving (or not) ‘#BaltiManufaktuur’ until 1995, when acquired (?) and renamed as #Baltex2000 until its closure and loss of several hundred jobs in 2006. See #Manufaktuuri, #Ketraja and #Sitsi. Another translation is ‘heap of granite’. Although
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

8 months ago

#Ketraja (Ketraja)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
Spinner, after those working at #BaltiManufaktuur (see #Manufaktuuri and #Kangru). But also, for those fascinated with the truly trivial or relatively irrelevant, a dialectical name for #öösorr, the #EuropeanNightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus.