tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841987475358224452024-03-29T11:03:28.612+00:00Postcards 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.Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.comBlogger431125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-41980817653921470942016-07-10T18:13:00.000+01:002016-07-10T18:13:12.944+01:00Hampstead, London, Heath Street c1920Hampstead, London, Heath Street circa 1920. Postcard by Degen / Lewis. Surprisingly little has changed except the volume of traffic. Express Dairy is now Tesco Express. The clock tower in the distance housed the fire station until 1915. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com1Guildford St, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 9AS, UK51.3894183 -0.5062345999999706751.384463800000006 -0.51631959999997068 51.3943728 -0.49614959999997066tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-58382161975202334202016-01-17T16:18:00.000+00:002016-01-17T16:18:07.873+00:00Barking, Essex, The Bull Hotel, c1918<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking" target="_blank">Barking</a>, Essex, The Bull Hotel, c1918. There are flags up outside the Bull Hotel, but I don't know what they are commemorating, possibly the end of The Great War. I've had this postcard for ages but ws unable to find the location until now. The pub was <a href="http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Barking/bull.shtml" target="_blank">rebuilt in 1925</a> and has now closed down, <a href="http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/30/30138/Bull/Barking" target="_blank">possibly for good</a>. Postcard by an unknown publisher. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com5Barking, Greater London, UK51.536252440677771 0.0767272710800170951.535943940677768 0.076096771080017084 51.536560940677774 0.0773577710800171tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-27604693523281999572015-10-04T18:05:00.000+01:002015-10-04T18:08:58.496+01:00Yiewsley High Street, showing Marlborough Cinema, c1926<a href="http://www.yiewsley.org.uk/history.htm" target="_blank">Yiewsley</a> is a town just north of Heathrow Airport. The postcard (by W H Applebee) shows the <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32818" target="_blank">Marlborough Cinema</a>, opened in 1923, renamed to the Ritz in 1956 and closed in 1960. The films being shown are <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015775/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5" target="_blank">East Lynne</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016137/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_7" target="_blank">My Son</a>. The cinema stood almost opposite the <a href="http://postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.com/2015/10/yiewsley-town-hall-c1930.html" target="_blank">Town Hall</a>. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com35127 High St, West Drayton, Greater London UB7, UK51.514007199999988 -0.47342260000004951.512772199999986 -0.475944100000049 51.515242199999989 -0.470901100000049tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-76291443708264041702015-10-04T17:58:00.000+01:002015-10-04T18:08:15.276+01:00Yiewsley Town Hall, c1930<a href="http://www.yiewsley.org.uk/history.htm" target="_blank">Yiewsley</a> is a town just north of Heathrow Airport. The town hall was built in the late 1920s and was used up until the 1950s. It stood almost opposite the <a href="http://postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.com/2015/10/yiewsley-high-street-showing.html" target="_blank">Marlborough Cinema</a> (later the Ritz). The town hall is now called Key House and is run by the <a href="http://www.keyhousetrust.org.uk/aboutus.html" target="_blank">Key House Trust</a>. Postcard circa 1930 by an uncredited publisher. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com1136 High St, West Drayton, Greater London UB7, UK51.5140063 -0.4733811999999488851.5127713 -0.47590269999994889 51.5152413 -0.47085969999994887tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-86880343002209346572015-08-30T16:31:00.000+01:002015-08-30T16:31:24.377+01:00Horsell Schools, Woking, Surrey, c1913Horsell Schools, Woking, Surrey, circa 1913. The school is now called <a href="http://www.horsell-village.surrey.sch.uk/" target="_blank">Horsell Village School</a> and was built in 1851. Postcard by W. H. Applebee. Click on the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com2Church Hill, Woking, Surrey GU21 4QQ, UK51.3227327 -0.570885099999941351.3214922 -0.57340659999994126 51.323973200000005 -0.56836359999994135tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-55436770878688932812015-03-22T22:09:00.000+00:002015-03-22T22:09:11.222+00:00Horton Road, Berkshire, c1910<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Horton Road, circa 1910. Horton is a village in Berkshire. It is between Windsor and Staines-upon-Thames. The poet John Milton lived there between 1632 and 1640. Postcard by Young & Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com74 Horton Road, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead SL3 9NU, UK51.4741592 -0.5431108999999878525.952124700000002 -41.851704899999987 76.9961937 40.765483100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-58614335336947268902015-01-28T22:14:00.000+00:002015-01-28T22:14:10.615+00:00Wandsworth, South West London, Melody Road 1906Wandsworth, South West London, Melody Road 1906. Postcard by Richard Young. I think the building on the left was a post office.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com4160 Melody Road, London SW18 2QG, UK51.4541051 -0.1822105999999621425.9320706 -41.490804599999962 76.9761396 41.126383400000037tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-77048075385582085912014-12-25T21:42:00.000+00:002014-12-25T21:42:12.791+00:00Merry Christmas from postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.comMerry Christmas from postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.com.<br />
Here's a view along the riverside in Twickenham by Young & Co, circa 1908. <br />
I hope to post more in the new year.<br />
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<br />Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com1Meadowside, Twickenham, Greater London TW1, UK51.451599400000013 -0.3091127000000142351.449125400000014 -0.31415520000001423 51.454073400000013 -0.30407020000001422tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-76935425715524035612014-10-21T00:35:00.001+01:002014-10-29T23:09:56.594+00:00Ashford, Middlesex, National Schools 1908<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford,_Surrey" target="_blank">Ashford</a>, Middlesex, National Schools 1908. It is interesting that an idyllic scene such as this can sometimes conceal a nasty secret. The postcard below (post dated 1908 on the back) shows the National Schools in Ashford, Middlesex (Ashford is now in the county of Surrey). The school was erected in 1868 and as you can see from the Google Street View, it still survives today as the <a href="http://www.ashford-primary.surrey.sch.uk/" target="_blank">Ashford Church of England Primary School</a>. It has been enlarged but the original buildings survive. The postcard shows a group of girls on the left and boys on the right. On the left of the girls is a woman, probably a teacher. Behind the girls is a man. He may well be the schoolmaster, Cyril Neaves. Neaves was convicted in September 1909 of a vicious beating of a pupil at the school and was fined five pounds - quite a lot of money back then. The story was reported nationally and was even <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1909/sep/23/ashford-national-schools" target="_blank">discussed in the Houses of Parliament</a> (NB, the Hansard website OCR has got Neaves' name wrong). The Sheffield Evening Telegraph for 7th September 1909 reported the case as follows:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">SCHOOLMASTER FINED<br />Heavy Penalty on Charge of Assault.<br />A Boy's Punishment.<br />For an alleged assault on Albert Darling, aged 10, one of his pupils, Cyril Neaves, the headmaster of Ashford (Middlesex) National Schools was fined £5 yesterday.<br />According to the evidence the headmaster, on August 30th, placed the boy over a desk, where he was held by an assistant master, and thrashed him with a cane until it broke in two.<br />The boy, who lives at Park Road, Ashford, told the Bench that the headmaster asked him to bring his drawing, and, after looking at it, said: "Stand aside and I will deal with you in a minute." He was flogged for about five minutes. He cried from the pain, and when he sat down the headmaster said, "I'll give you some more if you don't sit still."<br />Mrs Darling said that her son was covered with bruises, and his flesh was red and inflamed, "almost like jelly". She counted thirteen marks on his body. She had complained to the headmaster before about thrashing the boy, and he then said that he would serve him the same tomorrow if he would not do his work.<br />The defendant denied, in his evidence, that he struck the boy more than four times. When he called him out he loitered, shuffled his feet, and muttered under his breath. The witness gave him two strokes of the cane, and as he muttered again he gave him two more.<br />The bench unanimously decided to impose the maximum penalty.</span><br />
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It is possible that Neaves is the man in the photo and that poor Albert Darling may be one of the boys. A sorry tale.<br />
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<small> </small>Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com619-25 High Street, Sutton, Greater London SM3, UK51.3578343 -0.215425299999992651.3572148 -0.2166857999999926 51.3584538 -0.21416479999999261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-37130264408857259622014-07-12T21:41:00.000+01:002014-07-12T21:41:06.467+01:00Aldgate Pump, City of London c1912<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldgate_Pump" target="_blank">Aldgate Pump</a>, City of London circa 1912. This old postcard by an uncredited publisher shows the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldgate_Pump" target="_blank">Aldgate Pump</a> at the corner of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenchurch_Street" target="_blank">Fenchurch Street</a> (on the left) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadenhall_Street" target="_blank">Leadenhall Street</a> (on the right). The postcard view shows <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Katharine_Cree" target="_blank">St. Katherine Cree</a> church, built c1638, one of the few City churches to survive the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London" target="_blank"> Great Fire</a> in 1666. The church is still there but is difficult to see in the Street View image. If you move the Google Street View one step to the left you get a better likeness to the postcard, but the pump is completely obscured by a street sign. Leadenhall Street also contains the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Metal_Exchange" target="_blank">London Metal Exchange</a>, Europe's last remaining <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_outcry" target="_blank">open outcry</a> financial exchange. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com222 High Street, Hampton Hill, Hampton, Greater London TW12, UK51.4255541 -0.3571507000000337951.4230791 -0.3621932000000338 51.428029099999996 -0.35210820000003379tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-82820379112019913482014-05-12T23:35:00.000+01:002014-05-12T23:35:08.059+01:00Norton, Gloucestershire, Norton Cash Stores in 1911<a href="http://www.nortonglos.btck.co.uk/" target="_blank">Norton</a>, Gloucestershire, Norton Cash Stores in 1911. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton,_Gloucestershire" target="_blank">Norton</a> is a hamlet north of the city of Gloucester. The village shop was run by Esther Hughes. That is probably her on the right, holding the baby. To the left of her may be her assistant in the shop, Elizabeth Whiting. According to the 1911 census the pair lived in the building, with the baby, Norah Mary Perry. I don't know why they lived with a baby with a different surname, perhaps an orphaned niece? A notice in the shop advertises a 'rummage sale' on Wednesday the 7th of June which helps me date the photograph accurately to 1911.<br />
I am indebted to Mike Dill, Steve Maidment and the <a href="http://www.nortonglos.btck.co.uk/" target="_blank">Village of Norton Website</a> for the following information about the shop and 'The Elms' shown below. The building - Tess Hughes's shop, "was a cottage at right angles to the road opposite the top of Wainlodes Lane". It was destroyed by fire early in the morning of November 2nd 1935. "Tess herself was not much harmed. She had a distrust of banks and kept most of her money in buckets that hung from the beams. The place after the fire was littered with coins." ('How it All happened' by Canon Evans-Prosser, Vicar of Norton).<br />
The modern bungalow you can see in the modern Google Street View now stands just behind the approximate site of the shop.<br />
Also notable is the horse bus operated by George Symonds of Gloucester. It appears to be a very primitive bus, even by the standards of 1911. It had a very short run between the nearby villages of Lonford, Twigworth and Norton. One has to wonder how often the bus ran and how successful the service was. I think the young man standing to the right of the horses was the bus conductor. This postcard was published by Young & Co of Teddington. Click the postcard and blow-ups to enlarge.<br />
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This is another postcard by Young & Co of Teddington showing a large farmhouse in Norton, called 'The Elms'. Prior to 1897 it was called 'Norton Farm' and reverted back to that name in 1923 (source: Steve Maidment - 'Norton Farm'). The farmhouse has not changed much in the last century, but one of the chimneys appears to have slid down the roof. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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The next image, Rose Lane Ripley WHA 4 shows Ruth on her bicycle next to a boy. Again, a later version of this postcard, Rose Lane Ripley WHA 3944 shows her to have been obliterated from the negative. The boy is still there.<br />
Another image, Fire Station, Ripley, WHA 7 shows Ruth again. Though I do not possess it, there is surely a later version of this image in the 394x series showing the same view with Ruth having been obliterated.<br />
Finally, an image of Rose Cottage (WHA3948) with a tell-tale obliterated person. I do not possess the original, but I am keeping an eye out for it, we all know who will be behind the scratchy lines. <br />
It has long bothered me why Applebee, a fairly well known postcard publisher in Middlesex and Surrey would want to obliterate a 15 year old girl from a postcard. Initially I had visions of Mrs Applebee insisting her husband do this because of an insane jealously for this girl half her age. But there is no evidence at all to suggest this. Mrs Applebee was utterly devoted to her husband and when he died in 1915 she remained a widow, never remarrying. She died alone in 1972. Another, much more sensible scenario has recently occurred to me. I think the original postcards featuring Ruth were commissioned by her grandfather, Alfred Hill, to sell in his shop. Another establishment in Ripley asked for some postcards to sell so Applebee thought to sent them these. However he realised they might not want to feature the daughter of another local businessman so he simply just scratched Ruth off the negatives and renumbered them. Simple!<br />
Click the postcards to enlarge. I've also included a couple of close-ups of Ruth.<br />
For more old images have a look at the <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2014/03/sepia-saturday-219-15-march-2014_11.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday</a> blog.<br />
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<br />Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com141 Rose Lane, Ripley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6NE, UK51.2995283 -0.4919623000000683551.2992178 -0.49259280000006833 51.299838799999996 -0.49133180000006837tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-7485285420597329922014-02-27T23:31:00.001+00:002014-02-27T23:31:40.908+00:00Holt, Wiltshire, The Street, 1910<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holt,_Wiltshire" target="_blank">Holt</a>, Wiltshire, The Street, 1910. <a href="http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=120" target="_blank">Holt</a> is a village in Wiltshire, not far from Bradford on Avon. Postcard by Young & Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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"Dear Flo, I thought I would call and see you to find out how you were getting on. You remember Miss Streeter, a dark young lady in the millinery showroom, rather short and stout. She gets married tomorrow (Wed May 24th) and thinks of calling on you if she has time. She will be in Paris for a few days. Sorry I can't think of your name. Best love from yours, Meta".<br />
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The building on the front of the postcard still exists, on the Google Street View image (dated May 2012) 652 Old Kent Road is the premises of <a href="http://zenith-training.com/" target="_blank">Zenith Training</a>. Click the postcard images to enlarge (then right-click and 'save as' to download high resolution copies).<br />
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For more Christmas themed old pictures have a ook at the <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2013/12/sepia-saturday-208-christmas-new-year.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday</a> blog. <br />
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The original purchaser of this postcard conveniently wrote some notes on the back that illuminate this scene. He or she writes 'Dear N, The Post Office is by the trees and very quaint it is too. This motor has ceased to run and I'm very sorry, for it is over four miles to the station and it means walking. Hope you are well. Best wishes, MHC'.<br />
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Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556727166267551805noreply@blogger.com12Petworth Road, Chiddingfold, Godalming, Surrey GU8 4TX, UK51.1097626 -0.6295433999999886551.1094511 -0.63017389999998863 51.110074100000006 -0.62891289999998867tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484198747535822445.post-77225756659247991782013-11-18T23:04:00.000+00:002013-11-18T23:04:09.952+00:00Ruislip, Middlesex, The High Street c1913<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ruislip, Middlesex, The High Street circa 1913. Ruislip is much more built-up now, but the buildings on the left are the same. This postcard was produced by W. H. Applebee of Ashford for Harry Hailey who ran the sub-post office in Ruislip village. Click the postcard to enlarge.<br />
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