Gaze upon the Rec ...... and spot the changes .....

The blog doesn't usually do then and now pictures ...... well not unless there are  accompanying stories which elaborate on the changes, explores why they happened and concludes with heaps of references.

Looking across the Rec, 2023

But today  I rather think I will leave it at the pictures, taken a year or so apart in The Rec from almost the same spot.

This morning had I thought about doing a then and now I would have paced out my position, but I didn't.

Lost to sight, the Irish Club and car park, 2024

On a cold autumnal morning with plenty of pale sunshine I had just wanted to record an empty Rec, but that big block of apartments dominated the scene.

Of course from spring through the summer it is hidden but as the leaves fall there it is growing by the day.

And for those who will ask, the Irish Centre is still there although it is not open, and for those who want more, the club started out as a Masonic Lodge, and site of the apartments was a bowling green.

Location; the Rec

Pictures; looking across the Rec in 2023, and 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson