The BEFORE and AFTER Thread

[MD]

forgot about this thread i made this for my site


corah1920-2012 by M D Allen, on Flickr


the leicester velodrome
before


Panorama 2007 by M D Allen, on Flickr


after it still sits like this to this day



velodrome gone 2009 by M D Allen, on Flickr


2007

track 2007 by M D Allen, on Flickr

2009 mid demo


going 2008 by M D Allen, on Flickr

 

[the kwan]

baron hill mansion in Anglesey

in the 1920's

today

tea on the patio with the king

today

 

[daimo_45]

This thread is epic! My fav thing is going somehwere then seeing an archive pic of the place after!

 

[flyboys90]

Great thread.

 

[shane.c]

Love the before and after pics ,

 

[oldscrote]

Love the pictures Bridlad,the one with the WW1 tank is interesting.A lot of these were distributed to towns around the country after the Great War as memorials although most were cut up for scrap during the second world war.A few of the Kent ones are pictured here

http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1811.0

 

[TeeJF]

A lot of these were distributed to towns around the country after the Great War

Indeed they were. When it's charm had faded the one in Haslingden was dragged into a dirty great pit dug alongside it and apparently still lies there now. A metal detector goes mental over it apparently. There was a move to dig it out but as soon as cost reared it's ugly head it all went quiet.

Isn't the one on the photo a Mk V mother?

 

[bridlad]

i dont know much about tanks but a local historain told me it was a polish tank?

 

[TeeJF]

i dont know much about tanks but a local historain told me it was a polish tank?

What an interesting comment . I can tell you though that it's definitely not Polish. It's definitely a British tank from the Great War, the question is what Mark and what "sex". The male tanks had rather larger sponsons (the side armoured compartments) carrying small artillery pieces (6 pounders if my memory serves me correctly) and the female or "mother" tanks carried longer, shallow sponsons mounting Hotchkiss or Lewis light machine guns. Externally it's extremely difficult for me personally to tell the Marks apart, especially if the length of the tank is not obvious (skewed pictures, head on shots etc) as the most obvious differences at first glance came down to the overall length of the tank.

The reason I say it's definitely NOT Polish is that Poland did not really exist until after the Great War. So a Polish tank of that period would have to be a Prussian tank, and as Prussia was part of the greater Germany after the Franco-Prussian war of the 1870s then it would be a German tank. The only German tank of the Great War was the squat pill box on tracks A7 and they looked a world different.

Come on all you mil buffs! lets get cracking!!!

 

[TeeJF]

I think I've got it!

It's a Mark III female according to the information on the following website...

http://landships.activeboard.com/t11083033/home-forces-or-training-numbers-or-what-you-will/

The third and fourth postings say why and there are also two more pictures of the tank on the day of delivery to the town.

Wish it was still there!!!

 

[bridlad]

this is the tank i was told was polish,

 

[TeeJF]

Ahhhh... now that's rather easier. It's an American made Sherman. I guess then it will have been allocated to a Polish cavalry brigade.

 

[krela]

Is it just me or does that look like a prototype Dalek?

 

[TeeJF]

Is it just me or does that look like a prototype Dalek?

You vill be hex-schterm-in-ated Englischer pig dog!

 

[Els]

My Dad, God rest his Soul, a prolific photographer himself, was sometimes taken to take a stroll around London come a Sunday afternoon to snap a few pics of life in the City. Here are a set of pictures he took of the Brick Lane area in 1974. It's taken quite a bit of effort to find out where the pictures where taken, in fact the only clue in any of the pics was the church in Fournier Street which fortunately I happened to recognise, so I was able to piece it together from there.

54 Brick Lane.

43 Fashion Street. Note the burglar alarm, top right, the same.

59 Fashion Street.

Chicksands Street. Note the drunk.

Building on the right gone.

Fournier Street.

Probably inside a house on Fournier St.

Door in Fournier Street.

Lorry cab on Brushfield St.

View where above picture was taken.

Brushfield Street.

View totally obscured by trees.

A slightly better picture moved to the left.

The following pictures are on the same contact sheet so taken in the same area but I can't find the locations, I expect the buildings have been demo-ed.

 

[flyboys90]

Superb post,brilliant photos.

 

[MD]

seconded
good work

 

[steve2109]

really enjoyed looking at this thread, its something different and i love all the before and after shots, given me a new angle to think of when out and about, thanks guys

 

[bridlad]

great pics Els, its good that you carry on your dads work, my dad started me off on the then & now pics years ago

 

[bridlad]

a few more of mine in my home town of Bridlington.
this one is taken directly outside my daughters house, 60 years inbetween shots.

1948 & 2011

1961 & 2012

almost 70 years between these shots.. the performers were called the Bridlington Perriots..

my parents lived in this block in the 50s when they 1st moved to Bridlington.