Hampton, Middlesex, Church Street circa 1950. Church Street is actually the road to the right, obscured by the minibus in the Google Street View. The photograph was taken from Thames Street. In the postcard we can see the overhead power lines for the trolleybuses which superceded the trams in the 1920s. The trolleybuses were phased out in this area in the early 1950s. The church you can see, St Mary's, is the parish church of Hampton. The postcard was published by E. A. Wilson of Sunbury, a relative by marriage of W. H. Applebee, the prolific early 20th century postcard publisher from Ashford. Click the postcard to enlarge.
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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.
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
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The photographer must have given up trying to get a shot without that grid of lines. Surely overhead tram wires were as visually intrusive to people of the era as they seem to us now.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see this old photo of Thames Street. There were very tall wood gates for the tram to pass through at the location in my picture where there is a tall column in the wall.
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