This is another of the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s.
They sat undisturbed in our cellar for a decade and a bit but all good things eventually come to light.
They were colour slides which have been transferred electronically.
The quality of the original lighting and the sharpness is sometimes iffy, but they are a record of a lost Eltham and Woolwich.
At which point I have to confess this one was taken by one of my sisters on one of those cameras which gave you a print straight away, but it will still date from the 1970s or at the latest sometime in the mid 1980s.
Looking at the house today little has changed. The porch added by Dad in 1964 has gone, the front has been painted white, and the wall that ran alongside the pavement has been replaced by a wooden fence which was what would have been there back in 1915 when the property was built.
The great tree which stood almost in front of our house was long ago demolished but a new one has been planted.
But that is not quite the end of the story because for Christmas I got one of those scanners which can scan old negatives and I have a lot of old negatives of Eltham, Woolwich and beyond, so as they say, watch this space.
Location; Well Hall Road
Picture; our house,1974 from the collection of Andrew Simpson and our house in 2014, courtesy of Chrissie Rose
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| Our house, 1974 |
They were colour slides which have been transferred electronically.
The quality of the original lighting and the sharpness is sometimes iffy, but they are a record of a lost Eltham and Woolwich.
At which point I have to confess this one was taken by one of my sisters on one of those cameras which gave you a print straight away, but it will still date from the 1970s or at the latest sometime in the mid 1980s.
Looking at the house today little has changed. The porch added by Dad in 1964 has gone, the front has been painted white, and the wall that ran alongside the pavement has been replaced by a wooden fence which was what would have been there back in 1915 when the property was built.
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| The same house, 2014 |
But that is not quite the end of the story because for Christmas I got one of those scanners which can scan old negatives and I have a lot of old negatives of Eltham, Woolwich and beyond, so as they say, watch this space.
Location; Well Hall Road
Picture; our house,1974 from the collection of Andrew Simpson and our house in 2014, courtesy of Chrissie Rose
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