Postcards Then and Now

Old postcards from the early 20th century, compared to the same view shown on Google Street View today. The postcards come from my own collection. Almost all of them are from England, mainly showing West London, Middlesex, Surrey, Berks and Bucks. Click on the postcards to see enlarged versions. Street View images are the copyright of Google. Comments, questions or requests are welcome. If you repost my images on other websites (such as Facebook) please include a link to my original post.

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

New Malden, Surrey, Coombe Road and Royal Oak c1908

New Malden, Surrey, Coombe Road and Royal Oak c1908. Postcard by Young & Co of Teddington. Young would have been very familiar with this area, his wife Annie was living in nearby Lime Grove before they married in 1902 at the local Wesleyan Methodist church. The Royal Oak pub looks surprisingly similar, but the in the surrounding area only the distant trees show any trace of the semi-rural idyll suggested by the postcard.

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Unknown25 January 2015 at 17:15
Do you still have this card as I would be interested in the wording on the reverse regarding the cross marked on the front?

J McCarthy (New Malden Amateur Historian)
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Unknown29 January 2015 at 00:37
Howard

Many thanks for posting the reverse. Anyone interested in Maldens (New and Old) and Coombe may wish to visit our site: http://maldensandcoombeheritagesociety.weebly.com/
Thanks again
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