Saturday, 30 April 2011
Surrey, Richmond, Hill Rise c1905 and c1913
Surrey, Richmond, Hill Rise circa 1905 and circa 1913. Here are a couple of postcards that show Hill Rise before all of the buildings on the left side of the street were demolished. It does make Hill Rise more open and airy, but it has lost some of its cluttered charm. Google Street View does not go up Hill Rise for some reason, so the 'now' pictures are ones I took a few days ago on my telephone as I was passing through. Postcards by LL and W. H. Applebee. The LL postcard is a little earlier than the WHA and was taken a little further up the hill. Click the pictures to enlarge. For more old photographs please visit Sepia Saturday.
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Lovely before and afters! Yes - some of the charm went with the widening of the road, but progress must progress progressively, I guess. I especially enjoyed the detail in the first picture. Three places for tea, and one for Cadbury Chocolates. I know where I'd spend my afternoons.
ReplyDeleteOh I do wonder about those "Show Rooms Upstairs." What could the possibly have been showing?
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see the modernization in these before and after pics.
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Ladies of the grove
I like the way chimney pots seem to survive the test of time - their silhouettes seldom change! (Did you realise, your second picture hasn't loaded properly, for some reason?) :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful pictures. I agree with Muse Swings, though number 49 looks tempting: dressmaking millinery, corsets and blouses.
ReplyDeleteThis looks vaugely familiar to me. I know I have visited the area but can't quite place this street.
ReplyDeleteLike the idea of the Cheese shop.
Nice comparison. The old postcards look so much more interesting with all the signs and people.
ReplyDeleteWhat a surprise to see a place I know! My wife was born, and spent her childhood just a short distance away on Richmond hill. She marveled at the old and new photos. We walked past these same sites only last month when we visited her sister who still lives there. It still remains a very pedestrian town.
ReplyDeletenice time passing cards. the past does look more interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to visit the shops on the old cards..and I would step right up to see what was happening in those showrooms.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is surprising how things are changed and opened up when one side of the street is demolished - and left unbuilt. Fascinating comparisons.
ReplyDeleteI Always find it sad when streets are demolished & Memory of them vanish.At least the remaining row still gives us a comparison+context.Yes! I agree with the comment above,the past is more interesting ps.word vitrifaction ="unnness"
ReplyDeleteGreat before and after photos.
ReplyDeletelove those then and now shots. i'm especially intrigued with the first one as i wonder if the lady did go up to the showrooms upstairs... she looked so intent. i can almost feel her about to lean over to see something closer.
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So glad I found these pictures as my wife grew up in the first floor flat above the second shop on the right.
ReplyDeleteThe houses that occupied the south side of Hill Rise between the junction with
Petersham Road and the short steep Compass Hill (named after an eighteenth-century public
house. The Three Compasses), were systematically cleared away between the early 1950s and
11)67, after some contention the now open triangular space having been planted with trees.
She remembers the houses being demolished and we were hoping to find some pictures of the then and now.Thanks