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.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Chavey Down, Berkshire, Priory Road c1912
Chavey Down, Berkshire, Priory Road circa 1912. Have a look at this post for another view of Chavey Down. Postcard published by W. H. Applebee. Click to enlarge.
It must have been difficult when the roads were all untarmac-ed, something we take very much for granted. In doing some research I was reading through a school log book from about 100 years ago and there were quite a few reports of children not getting into school (on foot obviously) because of the state of the roads, well at least that was the 'reason' given (there were also quite a lot of absences when the weather was fine too ;)).
I took a virtual walk a little farther down the road and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a 100-year-old street view archive?
ReplyDeleteIt must have been difficult when the roads were all untarmac-ed, something we take very much for granted. In doing some research I was reading through a school log book from about 100 years ago and there were quite a few reports of children not getting into school (on foot obviously) because of the state of the roads, well at least that was the 'reason' given (there were also quite a lot of absences when the weather was fine too ;)).
ReplyDeleteThoughtful blog you have here
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