It’s illuminating to look at the same places with one hundred years or so between there-and-then and here-and-now. Here are some of the historic pictures in the two walks into the past on other pages, juxtaposed with the same view this summer: 2018. (In summer, of course, the trees tend to obscure the differences, even though they are part of the story. So with luck another, winter, view will be added later.)
OCKENDON ROAD
WALL STREET
ON THE CORNER OF ESSEX ROAD
THE LORD CLYDE in the 1950s
ESSEX ROAD STATION then and now
LOOKING BACK NORTH PAST ESSEX ROAD STATION to St Matthew’s Church
LOOKING BACK TO St Matthew’s Church (it was on the corner of Northampton Street)
THE GOLDEN FLEECE
ESSEX ROAD JUNCTION WITH NEW NORTH ROAD
THE THREE BREWERS
THE CARLTON/ABC CINEMA/BINGO HALL
CROSS STREET
THE OLD SORTING OFFICE
THE OLD QUEEN’S HEAD
ISLINGTON GREEN
COLLINS’S MUSIC HALL at Islington Green
LOOKING TOWARDS THE ANGEL in the 1920s
TOP OF UPPER STREET
THE ANGEL
BACK UP NORTH : St Paul’s Church at Ball’s Pond Road
CORNER OF ESSEX ROAD AND BALL’S POND ROAD
HIGHBURY/ISLINGTON STATION
Anyone got any new old pictures?
These “Yesterday” pictures are also all on this walkabout page: https://ockendonroad.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/a-walk-through-the-past-going-westwards
And see also: https://ockendonroad.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/a-walk-through-the-past-2-eastwards-to-southgate-road
Ockendon Road N1 