For more old pictures have a look at this week's Sepia Saturday blog where the theme is shops.
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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.
A charming group of ladies and the shop with the old Bovril signs is interesting, especially as it was attached to a house.
ReplyDeleteI like how they have their shop aprons covering their pretty dresses. I wonder why they boxed the shop back into the house?
ReplyDeleteGreat now and then contrast!
Kathy M.
A beautiful photo and to have the names of the ladies and the little girl makes it extra special!
ReplyDeleteWhat a charming store front. Tea and tobacco - I wonder what other quality products they carried.
ReplyDeleteWhat a tiny shop that must have been - intriguing. My family ran a shop from their house in Normanton, Derby from the 1880s, and it remained in the family until the 1940s.
ReplyDeleteLovely - thanks for enlarging it so we can see the details.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time posting to Sepia Saturday and I just love your theme of using Google and matching it to your postcards.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I get home (we are wintering in Las Vegas) I am going to go through my box of old postcards and start posting them.
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It was quite common to see the front rooms of little houses turned into shops and also pubs. All gone now, squeezed out by the big-boys
ReplyDeleteGreat picture and I see that the gate pillars are still the same but now painted. The little girl is lovely :-) Jo
ReplyDeleteSorry but the picture with the pillars is number 4 next door number 2's pillars have long gone amd the large bay with three windows now only has one small window in the centre. You can see it on Google Earth.
DeleteA beautiful photo. I would never have guessed that this residential street would once have included such small shop like that of H.Huse. I wonder how many people they served, and when they closed.
ReplyDeleteWonderful old photograph - as with so many others, it is the level of detail that is so captivating. The modern comparison is interesting too - you have to search around for the points of reference, but they are still there.
ReplyDeleteI have only just realised as a result of this glorious shop that the shop I frequented as a boy during and shortly after the war was built into a house. It's rather obvious now that it has been closed. It would have been no bigger that that of H Huse but was always full of people.It was its gobstoppers that I remember best.
ReplyDeleteGreat detail in the clothing and shop. It's nice that everything is identified.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking those are white smocks like aprons hanging over their dresses- to stay clean! Nice store front too! A great Sepia photo too!
ReplyDeleteLove this - it's just round the corner from my flat! :-)
ReplyDeletei was born at number 3 in 1935
ReplyDeletebut whear is number 3
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