Your Home Town
 

https://i.imgur.com/Cgfptr7.jpeg

This is an old photo taken right in the centre of my home town of Tonbridge in Kent, England. The Norman castle is a little way further back on the left - out of shot - but you can walk up Castle Street right by the National Westminster Bank there to reach it too - a very pretty area up there and unchanged (the Natwest bank is still there)

Also unchanged since this photo was taken is The Chequers Inn, also on the left, where Moira and I spent our Wedding Night

Have you got an old shot of your own home town, either past or present?

The Prinzipalmarkt in Muenster, before the war.

https://i.postimg.cc/Pr3Rb6G6/1.webp

The same part of the street after the city got bombed out during WW2, just looking at the houses on the other side of the same part of the street. Muenster got very severly pounded, most of the city core got destroyed.

https://i.postimg.cc/h4ZpYpsN/2.png

While some ruins and facades still stood after the war, all the buildings' interiors had burned out. Almost the whole historical city centre.

https://magazin.stadtmuseum-muenster...945/1-0002.jpg

The same street today, a pedestrian zone now, only busses allowed. Houses on both sides of the street are the ones you saw in the pictures before.

https://i.postimg.cc/PJrkJPZN/3.png

All houses where destroyed during the war. What there is today and looks old and ancient, indeed are just modern - and simplified - copies of the former facades and buldingds, because the remains that stood after the war had to be teared down.

Its all fake! :D

South Shields town centre (King St) leading down to the beach. (1950)

https://i.postimg.cc/Hk9Lf2t7/1950.jpg

I was born on a farm on which I lived until my fourth birthday when we move to a much bigger town-Soenderborg

Tried to take a copy of the street where I lived from I was 4 and until 7th birthday. Instead I post a link to the Danish archive

https://arkiv.dk/vis/5506504

Markus

I was born in Oxfordshire many years ago, it's hardly changed in 66 years.

Burford

https://i.postimg.cc/Znxs69SC/Burford.jpg

St John the Baptist Church

https://i.postimg.cc/BQdP2mmP/Burford-Church.jpg

Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens

https://i.postimg.cc/MGYc2qq1/Cotswo...nd-Gardens.jpg

Burford, first thing to do after you visit it, is to leave and never go back. :O:

http://i.imgur.com/jUhPjPI.jpg

@ Moonie.....I share your sentiments mate.

I grew up ( ? ) in Wallsend NSW, an outlying suburb of Newcastle Australia.
A coal mining town that saw better days. At it's height, late 1880s , it had 30 !!!! pubs ( now I think there's only 4 left ).

Life was tough for everyone. The main pastimes were Alcoholism followed by Knuckle.

Looking at the photo you're probably wondering "where is everyone?"....they're either down the mines or at the pub.

If you look closely...yes, there is a body on the railway line !

I'd never move back :yep:

Downtown in the 1960's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a58l8HCCXzQ


Downtown in 2023. Note the opening view of the video above is at about 14:min of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhdSDG2f_sM


Gus does a good job of describing the town and it's history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRaYvSqfciE&t=773s



A 4th of July parade in the 1930's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQ6dEc-t_Q


First part of a five part series of town history. I went to school with the guys who produced and narrated this series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eaftzsqu0

^
Loved to see the majorette ladies in the 1930s parade in their knee length dresses - they'd be up to their little 'tooshes' now (is that the correct spelling?)

What do British people do to their British places that these British places often look so very very British to the foreigner's eye...?:)

They take the photo only after ensuring there are no illegals in the immediate vicinity :)

Then we pour Britishness all over it

As many times the British says bloody you think everything be bloody

you forgot bleedin!! :yep:

If you don't use the words Bloody or Bleeding in a sentence, then you haven't been brought up to the British standard way of life.
Some of us went to a proper Boarding school and if you lived close by you could go home every night, but you would still get a caning if any of the Tutors heard you use those kind of words, and I got more than my fair share of that punishment, it was a badge of honour that some of us wilder one's wore with pride.

^ :yep: