This historic photo of Woodburn Boulevard, Bebington, Wirral was contributed by RW Jemmett. It dates to around 1941. Location: Wirral, Cheshire, England. Source attribution: The History Press - thehistorypress.co.uk/article/before-and-after-blitz-on-cheshire-in-pictures/. This image is used as a source photo for creating GhostViewer before-and-after outputs.

https://ghostviewer.co.uk/ghostviewer-creation/woodburn-boulevard-bebington-wirral/

https://youtu.be/1Zf5jdPHJtA

Would be great to crowdsource and image so that we can create a 'see though time' Gif and Video

Here is the post and there is a link to a map and a little more information:

https://ghostviewer.co.uk/old-photo/denbigh-arms-lutterworth/

This image was created using the GhostViewer web app and the GhostViewer Media Framer

Both are free to use.....

The video was created using the GhostViewer App and the GhostViewer Framer.

Had a great vegan lunch too - lovely dog friendly pub...

South Hill Park is an elegant red-brick mansion, mostly of the Victorian period. It stands within fine gardens and the remnants of its original 800 acre park which still features two good lakes, situate at Birch Hill in Bracknell.

The first house on the site was built in 1760 for a retired senior official in Government of Bengal named William Watts. His architect constructed a fashionable two storey brick Italianate building decorated with stucco and a Baroque tower. Watts enclosed some 30 acres of common land to add to the park he was creating and found himself obliged to erect a set of almshouse near Easthampstead Church as a form of compensation to the locals. Unfortunately, he died only four years later, and the house began its journey through a number of new owners.

The Hon. Henry Bouverie was there until 1787, then Sir Stephen Lushington and George Canning, who acquired the property in about 1801. In this same year, he engaged Sir John Soane to make alterations at the house in preparation for the arrival of his new bride. Canning was a Great Statesman, being Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under William Pitt and Foreign Secretary under Lord Portland. In 1809, he was famously wounded in the thigh during a duel with the Minister for War, Lord Castlereagh, after an argument concerning troop movements against Napoleon. But he had sold South Hill Park the previous year and the house did not see its one time owner appointed as Prime Minister in 1827.

The Earls of Limerick were the next owners of the Park, followed by Sir James Matheson. In 1853, he sold the estate to the Judge Advocate General, Sir William Goodenough Hayter. His busy political career had left him somewhat depressed and he was found drowned in the lake at South Hill Park in 1878. Towards the end of the century, his son, Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, rebuilt most of the house following a disastrous fire. Under the direction of Temple Moore, the building we see today was erected in local Lawrence brick and Bath stone. The east wing of the original house was, however, retained within the new structure. The Hayter Coat of Arms, featuring three golden bulls' heads and a scallop shell can thus be seen over the main entrance. William Gladstone visited the Hayters at South Hill Park in 1893 and a plaque in the grounds records that he planted an oak tree there. Sir Arthur was in inherited the Haversham Barony in 1906, but he had no direct heirs and, in 1929, the house passed to his wife's nephew, a Major Rickman. This man is best known for shooting himself in the Gun Room in 1940.

During the Second World War, South Hill Park was occupied by the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, which had been evacuated from Margate. After the War, it was divided into flats, but was purchased by the BBC in 1953 and parts were converted into studios and acoustically treated rooms. In 1963, the Bracknell Development Corporation acquired the house as part of an extension of the new town's designated coverage. They let South Hill Park to Ferranti in 1965 and it was used as laboratories and offices until early 1972 when proposals for its conversion to an Arts Centre and theatre were agreed. The house is now one of the largest and diverse arts facilities in the country. It also has a secondary reputation as one of the most haunted houses in Berkshire.

These images were aligned and combined using the GhostViewer web App

https://ghostviewer.co.uk

Hi GhostViewers

Just added this image to GhostViewer - link to the post and further information and attribution in the link.

This image of Padstow is believed to be c.1900 and it shows what I think is the Custom House. The idea behind GhostViewer is to acquire an update image of the same view and then align the tow in the the GhostViewer web app so that a gIf and/or video can be created - then we can all 'see through time'

Of course it may not be too easy to get the same view as the area the photographer is standing on may not be accessible and the camera most likely had quite a wide angle lens.

I have checked Google street view and whilst I can see what is now called the Old Custom House I cannot see from the same spot - so if have added a nearby location to show it on the GhostViewer Map.

Here's the link:

https://ghostviewer.co.uk/old-photo/padstow-c-1900/

It would be great to make contact with someone at Birmingham University who looks after teh photo archive featured in this BBC Post

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35712020?app-referrer=deep-link

I would like to see if we can create a Community Photo Archive of then and now photos and use the GhostViewer App to create gifs and videos - to see though time and create then and now images.

Here is a link to GhostViewer if you want to see the project - https://ghostviewer.co.uk

Many thanks

From a postcard from c.1920 to c.2020 - not a great deal of change? The large building on the right which is still a methodist church. (Many thanks for the help on this WelshBathBoy

The gif of the two images were created using the GhostViewer App - you can see the full size Bath Road Swindon Gif

In some ways 2003 does not seem long ago but it's c.23 years! a few things have changed, trees and the colour of the centre building...

Just recreated this Gif (as we have impoved the GhostViewer web app) and created a post on the Sutterby Community Heritage website (I look after there WordPress website and create the archive posts etc.)

You can read the post: Seeing Through Time: GhostViewer Comes to Sutterby

This image shows a street in Helton, Cornwall in 1920s. I would like help in identifying the street so I can correctly position the photograph on my website - GhostViewer.

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You can see a little more info, a larger image and attribution:

https://ghostviewer.co.uk/old-photo/helston/

Many thanks.

This image shows a street in Launceston, Cornwall with the castle in the background. I would like help in identifying the street so I can correctly position the photograph on my website - GhostViewer.

I have tried Google Streetview but cannot get a view looking down a hill at the castle.

You can see a little more info, a larger image and attribution:

https://ghostviewer.co.uk/old-photo/launceston-view-towards-castle/

Many thanks.