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Kingstanding Together

From the Heritage Archive

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.

1 pair

1839: Engraving of St Mary’s College, Oscott, in 1839: the long Gothic college building across open lawns1839
2013: The red-brick front of St Mary’s College, Oscott, with its central clock tower above steps and a lawn2013

St Mary’s College, Oscott, 1839 and 2013

St Mary’s College, newly built across its lawns, engraved for Roscoe’s Book of the Grand Junction Railway in 1839. The red-brick range and its central tower still look out over the grounds.

The 1839 pictureThe 2013 picture

1839: Engraving in Thomas Roscoe, The Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1839), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain · 2013: Photo: BoldmereBoy, 2013 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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These archive photographs don’t have a partner yet. If you pass one of these spots, stand where the old photographer stood, take the view today and send it to us — we’ll pair them up here, credited to you.

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