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Then & Now (And Back Again)
(apologies to JRR Tolkien)

Different Era, Same Image

1. Then & Now - High Street/Mill Street & Trinity Church

2. Then & Now - High Street Looking to Church

3. Then & Now - Church Hill


The old buildings were demolished in 1937. I discovered the following image in a book and assume this is the original image that the postcard came from?
The building on the right remains to this day.

4. Then & Now - Mill Street. Building on right - formerly Roselle's Cinema, within what was the then Town Hall. Wonder what happened to the Tower?



5. Then & now -Vesey Manor

6. Then & now - The Parade 1950s & in 2011

and again in 2018



7. Then & now - Bishop Vesey's Birthplace (L - Rear  R - Front)



8. Then & now - Wyndley Pool

9. Then & now - The US Sorting Office 1943 &  Post Office 2011

10. Then & now - Powells Pool

11. Then & now - Blackroot Pool (Stripped by Vandals)

11a. Then and now: Blackroot Pool (opposite direction)

12. Then and Now: Maney Corner Cottages Left 1872 - Right 2011 

13. Then & Now: The railway  line construction north of Four Oaks Station. The same section today

14. Parade

15. Penns Lane Walmley


Penns Lane, the bridge is over the Plantsbrook, approx 1890. This is now, 2012, on the same site


16. Penns Station


17. Mill Street 1943 & 2013


18. Coleshill Street 1950 & 2012

19. Mount View on Reddicap Hill - Built 1865 and again, the image in 2014

20. Crown Pub Four Oaks

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