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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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1930s: Sepia postcard of Witton Lodge Road, Perry Common: new brick houses behind wooden fences and a horse and cart on the long road — Witton Lodge Road, 1930s and 2014
A horse and cart far down Witton Lodge Road on a 1930s postcard of the new Perry Common estate, its houses behind wooden fences. In 2014 red-brick houses still line the road at its junction with Dovedale Road.
The 1930s picture The 2014 picture
1930s: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 · 2014: Photo: Martin Richard Phelan, 2014 · CC BY-SA 2.0

2014: Witton Lodge Road at its junction with Dovedale Road in July 2014, with red-brick estate houses and large trees — Witton Lodge Road, 1930s and 2014
A horse and cart far down Witton Lodge Road on a 1930s postcard of the new Perry Common estate, its houses behind wooden fences. In 2014 red-brick houses still line the road at its junction with Dovedale Road.
The 1930s picture The 2014 picture
1930s: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 · 2014: Photo: Martin Richard Phelan, 2014 · CC BY-SA 2.0

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