It’s illuminating to look at the same places with one hundred years or so in between then-and-there 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:

LOOKING NORTH TO OCKENDON ROAD (first left after the pub)

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AT THE JOLLY FARMERS, etc

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FURTHER SOUTH (perhaps?)

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THE BROTHERHOOD CHURCH

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AT THOMAS BRIGGS’S then and now

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SOUTHGATE ROAD SHOPS

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More pictures welcome: old and new!