The photo above comes once again from the aerial imagery snapped by the late John Webster, kindly provided to us by his son Steve Webster, now living in New Zealand. This fantastic image, taken very close to the previous aerial image of School Lane , shows many seldom photographed features which have now been lost,… Read More Upper Rosemary Hill & Albion Street Aerial Photo – Then & Now
This somewhat forlorn picture shows the final stages of clearing the plot of the former Liggins’ Bakery site at the junction of Park Hill and Stoneleigh Road. A Midland Red bus turns from Park Hill into Albion Street and a Renault 5 starts the steep climb up the hill. Behind can be seen the 1970s… Read More Empty Plot of Liggins Bakery – Then & Now
This pair of Then & Now images shows the demolition of the estate of post-war prefabricated houses (or ‘prefabs’), just off Stoneleigh Road in the mid 1970s and the housing estate that replaced them, shot in 2016. In case you are struggling to place the scene, the modern day vantage point is at the junction… Read More Demolition of Prefabs – Then & Now