Out with the old, in with the new

[Tom]

FFS, stupid bugs, lost an entire post there.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I got hold of some old (and unique) photos of my town that noone had seen before, and did some before/after shots for our town's website.

The originals are between 30-40 years old.

The last one was the hardest to find. Only the cottages have been demolished, but with the 'modernisations' on the houses to the left, the scene is totally different. Its only around the corner from my house, but I drove past it loads of times before I recognised it.

I lined them up by taking a piccie of the computer monitor with the old image, and then flicking back/forth between the two to find the exact spot the original image had been taken. Old camera had a wider lens, so its not perfect.

Anyway, its interesting for me. If you have any old photos, give it a try, its quite good fun.

 

[Skyler]

Good stuff.. amazing to see how much changes over such a short time.

 

[Whipped]

Someone replaced the house with a tree in the first one. Strange.

 

[Tom]

hehe its the same tree, just a slightly different shot.

 

[Jonaldo]

Am I boring for finding it interesting how much the trees had grown and changed over the years?

The little tree in front of the building in the second one is now a big ol evergreen thingy and the trees along the road in the third pic are all much bigger. Almost as if they are all... older!

 

[Tasslehoff]

No Jonaldo, i also did that to be honest.

Just my imagination didn't really get how the first pictures was supposed to be combined