Local history thread - or this is the thread where you post ancient black and white photos of places

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― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

nah

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey... I think I might have hit on something that it ISN'T easy to come across on the Interweb. I can't find any decent ones of my area.

I did find this totally out of character article, though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i think Gareth should have his own travel show - like those Clive James Postcards travelogs. he could amble around the South of England commenting on the peculiarities of the landscape and gentlefolk.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Here you go Matt, it's good for Londoners, anyway:

http://www.photolondon.org.uk/gallery.htm

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Tottenham Court Rd circa 1901. Oh no! Where's the Pint Pot? Oh no!

http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/lon1.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.harrow.gov.uk/common/images/lovelane_pinner_1903.jpg

Love Lane, Pinner, 100 years ago

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Trafalgar Square looking fuckoff weird without traffic.

http://www.photolondon.org.uk/assets/west_arc/large/box5-3a.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The closest to my hood:

http://www.photolondon.org.uk/assoc_pages/islington/highst_1934.jpg

Upper Street just North of the Angel.

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

great picture stevem!

― erik, Monday, 12 May 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinner hasn't changed much actually...

here's Camden Town, a century ago - looks like the crowds are gathering to see The Pimpernels live and maybe stone some pagans (goths) in the market
http://www.johnbarber.com/CTM/camden.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

This was taken pretty much directly outside where my flat now stands.

http://www.edwardian-delights.com/xl0713.jpg

It's hardly changed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Blackheath? I refuse to believe that such a place exists. That photo is faked, you and HSA made the place up! It's not on the tube, it does not exist!

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not on the tube, it does not exist!

kate lives underground

http://www.xs4all.nl/~astruijs/wijken/delfshaven/oud/19.jpg

Mathenesserdijk in Delfshaven Rotterdam, not far from my house

― erik, Monday, 12 May 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.photolondon.org.uk/assoc_pages/vestry_house/leabridge.jpg

― chris (chris), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Some great postcards of London here: http://www.newble.co.uk/goodwin/photos.html
Closest to me right now...
http://www.newble.co.uk/goodwin/images/london3.jpg
Might try and get out and take one today for comparison.

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

That's looking up Lea bridge road, with the Bakers' Arms pub on the left, and what's now a bank on the right. Horses apart, it hasn't changed all that much really

the one bfore Simeon's that is.

― chris (chris), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.doncasteronline.com/donc_online/gallery/img2.jpg

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 May 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Sepulchre?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Closest i could find: newish black and white photo of old building over the road from me: http://www.wcc.govt.nz/wellington/heritage/inventory/images/img00081.jpg

― hamish (hamish), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Patron Saint of Crap Brazilian Metal, Steve.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a patron saint of GOOD Brazilian metal?

now you ask I'm trying to find out who St. Sepulchre actually was but I just keep getting links to the "Ave Maria: Catholic Singles" dating site

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Not a photo, but this building is less than 50 yards away from me right now!

http://www.oldprints.co.uk/prints/eh/eh117.jpg

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ave Maria: Catholic Singles" dating site

!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Modern comparison: not much has changed!

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/hotelimages/533a.jpg

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

here you go steve...

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Berlin, Potsdamer Platz.

1903:

http://www.bruhaha.de/potsdamer_platz/potsdamer_platz_1903.jpg

1946:

http://www.bruhaha.de/potsdamer_platz/potsdamer_platz_1946.jpg

1965:

http://www.bruhaha.de/potsdamer_platz/potsdamer_platz_1965.jpg

more here.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imperial-airways.com/img118.jpg

― Lord Byron Lived Here, Monday, 12 May 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imperial-airways.com/img118.jpg

― Lord Byron Lived Here, Monday, 12 May 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.british-towns.net/england/brighton/county_images/pcbrighton.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

essex road used to be called lower street, (hence upper st as its counterpart), until about half way up, where it became balls pond rd (whereas today balls pond rd begins further up, at the junction with newington green road and st pauls road, it doesnt dip down into islington anymore)

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just down the road from here:
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/assets/gpr/large/ludgate.jpg

Since this photo was taken the King Lud has become a hogshead, now a Hog's Head, we have added a Waterstones on the opposite corner and, er, we've built St Paul's Cathedral (maybe someone had taken it away to clean it that day). Oh and the railway line across Ludgate hill is now the Thameslink and underground (where Kate can find it).

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't St Paul's Cathedral actually dead centre in the background of that pic?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, it's hidden by another spire

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah! Silly me!

(The other spire is that of St Martin's Without Ludgate which has some very fine Grinling Gibbons wood carving in it, fact fans.)

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Saint Sepulchre - Warm, cuddly, caucasian, mature male, GSOH, likes lawn tennis, easy-listening, Celtic football club. Seeking vivacious young Catholic girl for candlelit dinners, romantic walks by the river, nights at the opera and procreative naughtiness. Can travel.

Does that help, j0e?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

what's his email address??!?!?!??

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

saintsepulchre@NOABOMINATIONS.vatican.net

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

do I have to include my photo?

http://www.seanadams.com/nun.jpg

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i speak for everyone when i say 'Beejayzus'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.kameraseura.net/kuvat/Galleriakuva/dia_nayttkuv/nk_vallila.jpg

This picture isn't that old (probably from the fifties), but it's a couple of blocks from where I live in Helsinki.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 May 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Here is my alma mater.... AFLAME!

http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10009158+X-9158

― Mandee, Monday, 12 May 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Aflame with tiny red X's?

― kate, Monday, 12 May 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.coronadohistory.com/tentcity.jpg

One of various old photos of Coronado, where I sorta grew up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the first U Penn women's crew team ... in their boat along the Schuylkill (and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in background)

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/img/photocol/groups/1935womanscrew450.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

shibe/connie mack stadium, onetime home of the A's and the Phillies:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/shibeoutside.jpg

same field, circa 1909:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/shibe1909.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

some views of ebbetts field, brooklyn:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/ebbetsold2.jpg

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10033000/10033334

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Louisville, Kentucky during the 1937 flood.

― hstencil, Monday, 12 May 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

from lwow/l'viv/l'vov/lemberg, from whence my grandmother came:

http://members.fortunecity.com/evil100/arch1.jpg

http://members.fortunecity.com/evil100/sokol.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

This airport is now a Tesco supermarket and is right across the road from my house. One of the hangars is now the Catholic church.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/Scotland/renfrew/pictures/old_renfrew_airport.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

This lovely little trolley station, a few blocks from my home, is now a Pizza Hut:

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/TROLLEYS/Tower%20Square/towsq5.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

ah well, pizza > trolleys

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

Revive!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hellocolumbus.com/images/Penitentiary-1906.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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