Photo by Ken Russell - June/July 1955 Widow Collins Mrs Elizabeth Collins, 59 year old widow, lives in a Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate basement with three canaries. Each day at 6.30am she climbs seven flights of stairs to 16 tenants, cleans the stairs, keeps the boiler going, sorts the mail, takes up the milk, mends fuses, chops wood, repairs torn curtains, chats to her tenants and gives motherly advice. She is a housekeeper / concierge and is very happy in her work. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell