Today is tomorrow's history

Then and Now

Author Margaret Dowland

We are very lucky to have some old postcards in the archive which have all been colour tinted. We think they date from about 1920 give or take 10 years. Thanks to John Waddington we have recreated those images. So here are photographs of the village in the 1920’s and 2026 one hundred years apart. Some surprisingly unchanged and others totally unrecognisable.

Lower Street

The junction of Lower Street with Bradfield Road.

View from the crossroads with Bradfield Road across to Warren Road.

Looking up towards Pit Street.

Looking along Warren Road.

Chapel Road.

Windrush Chapel Road.

View of School from Jubilee Boardwalk that was built in 2000.

Upper Street

War memorial

Church Street from outside the Vernon Arms

Church Street

High Street outside Ham House

High Street with Long Lane.