Image kindly supplied by Ian Broad.
A nice diversion here from the relentless tide of bad news – old friend of the blog Ian Broad has been in touch to say that he’s using his current downtime to undertake a rather interesting photo history project – he’s trying to take modern pictures from the same angle as well known historic images.
Jill Manchester did this with great success a few years ago in Walsall Wood.
Ian has previously supplied lots of material for the blog. including an eternally popular 1982 Shire Oak School leaver group photo outside the Royal Oak pub in Shire Oak and lots about the history of Ian’s family shop Tom’s Cabin, a fixture of Brownhills for many years throughout the 1980s.
It’s always good to hear from old friends!
I shan’t identify locations, I’ll let readers work them out…
Ian wrote:
Image kindly supplied by Ian Broad.
Hi Bob,
Hope you and yours are well.
I’ve been using some old pics during my cycle rides (from your blog) to create 100 yrs apart pics.
It’s hard to capture the angles exactly as the iPhone is quite a wide angle lens.
I’ve also noticed that most old pics were taken from the middle of the road! Not too much of a problem to do that at the moment with such little traffic about.
As a cyclist I’ve also tried to find pics with bikes in them and then put mine in the same place. I’ve got quite a few more to do yet. The old Crossed Keys pub pic at Heath Hayes / Hednesford is one I want to get next.
Hope you like the pics.
Thanks to Ian for another great post and very thought provoking set of images, and if you have any views on this wonderful work, please do comment here or mail me – BrownhillsBob at Googlemail dot com. Thanks.
Image kindly supplied by Ian Broad.