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Kingstanding Together

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Kingstanding, then and now

Same places, decades apart — 25 of them so far. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys, to travel between an archive photograph and the view later on.

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4 pairs

The shop parade at Kingstanding Circle in January 2018, seen across the road and the grass of the roundabout — The Circle shops, c. 1950 and 2018
A cyclist rounds the railed garden in the middle of the Circle on a Tuck postcard of about 1950, with the gabled shop parade behind. The trees have grown and the railings have gone, but the parade still faces the roundabout.
Shops of the Circle The 1950 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2018: Martin Richard Phelan, 2018 · CC BY-SA 2.0

1950: Black-and-white postcard of the Circle, Kingstanding, around 1950: a parade of shops behind the railed garden in the middle of the Circle, with a cyclist on the road — The Circle shops, c. 1950 and 2018
A cyclist rounds the railed garden in the middle of the Circle on a Tuck postcard of about 1950, with the gabled shop parade behind. The trees have grown and the railings have gone, but the parade still faces the roundabout.
Shops of the Circle The 1950 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2018: Martin Richard Phelan, 2018 · CC BY-SA 2.0

1950: Black-and-white postcard of Hawthorn Road, Kingstanding, around 1950: shoppers and cyclists by a large shopping block, parked cars, and Foster Brothers on the corner — Hawthorn Road, c. 1950 and 2012
Shoppers and cyclists outside the big three-storey shopping block on Hawthorn Road, on a Tuck postcard of about 1950. The block still stands, its long rows of windows above a new generation of shopfronts.
Hawthorn Road shops The 1950 picture The 2012 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2012: Photo: Andy Mabbett, 2012 · CC BY-SA 4.0

2012: The long three-storey brick shopping block on Hawthorn Road in July 2012, with Heron Foods and Tesco Express at street level — Hawthorn Road, c. 1950 and 2012
Shoppers and cyclists outside the big three-storey shopping block on Hawthorn Road, on a Tuck postcard of about 1950. The block still stands, its long rows of windows above a new generation of shopfronts.
Hawthorn Road shops The 1950 picture The 2012 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2012: Photo: Andy Mabbett, 2012 · CC BY-SA 4.0

1950: Black-and-white postcard of St Luke’s Church, Kingstanding, around 1950: a brick church with a tall bell tower behind hedges and railings — St Luke’s Church, c. 1950 and 2010
St Luke’s and its bell tower behind neat hedges and railings on a Tuck postcard of about 1950. In 2010 the tower still closes the view down Caversham Road.
St Luke’s Church The 1950 picture The 2010 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

2010: Looking down a quiet street of 1930s brick semi-detached houses towards St Luke’s Church, a brick building with a square bell tower topped by a cross, among bare trees. — St Luke’s Church, c. 1950 and 2010
St Luke’s and its bell tower behind neat hedges and railings on a Tuck postcard of about 1950. In 2010 the tower still closes the view down Caversham Road.
St Luke’s Church The 1950 picture The 2010 picture
1950: Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, c. 1950 (TuckDB Postcards). Public domain · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

1950: A tree-lined road with semi-detached houses, a car, a lorry and a double-decker bus, captioned Perry Barr Kingstanding. — Kingstanding Road, 1950s and 2010
A car, a lorry and a double-decker bus on Kingstanding Road below the Hawthorn Road junction in the 1950s. The dual carriageway still curves away between wide grass verges and trees.
The 1950 picture The 2010 picture
1950: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, lSH/ Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0084 (3/1307) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

2010: A wide dual carriageway curving away between grass verges and bare trees, with street lamps, a line of parked cars and houses in the distance, under a grey sky. — Kingstanding Road, 1950s and 2010
A car, a lorry and a double-decker bus on Kingstanding Road below the Hawthorn Road junction in the 1950s. The dual carriageway still curves away between wide grass verges and trees.
The 1950 picture The 2010 picture
1950: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, lSH/ Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0084 (3/1307) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

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