The times, they are a changing...............

[RobArb]

helps if i add images!

[RobArb]

Fail !

 

To get any where near the same perspective, you will need to go back and stand on the brick edge, on one foot, with an eye shut & with your camera being held out as far to the left as possible above the water.

 

 

 

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Yes boss!

 

Found another good one, but need to go get the "now" pic:biggrin:

[David Humphries]

Found another good one, but need to go get the "now" pic:biggrin:

 

 

look forward to it

 

 

The below is a small enclave within Hampstead Heath called the Vale of Health. Home & work place to the writters Byron, Kelly, Keats & DH Lawrence amongst others.

 

The google image is slightly different, but you can see the tree encroachment over the last hundred years since the original shot was taken in 1920's

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Just echoing the posts of others. Fantastic thread and some beautiful photos. The older photos show a pace of life we could only maybe dream of today? I also agree that the places look much better, for the main, in the older pictures.

 

 

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[scotspine1]

nice thread, ancient Oak local to me, 108 years between pics

[David Humphries]

Fantastic Mr Pine

 

 

What a sad portrayal of the demise of a great and historic tree.

 

Do you know what happened to the lime (?) in the church yard?

 

 

 

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[Graham]

Lovely shots. The oak looks as though it has bands around it. Could that lime possibly be a wych elm?

[scotspine1]

Lovely shots. The oak looks as though it has bands around it. Could that lime possibly be a wych elm?

 

The bands were for tying petty criminals to with iron neck collars, but looking at them now, you'd think someone had strapped them to the tree as a form of support for the trunk (now unfortunately having a detrimental effect on the tree as you can see). I think that was a Lime and it was there up until relatively recently (although I know of a large Wych Elm in the area that looks very similar to that tree so couldn't say for sure). I seem to remember it being around when I was a kid in the early 80s.

 

The tree is hollow with a large cavity on the opposite side of what you see in this pic.

[Graham]

I'd say the bands were placed to prevent the stem splitting. Which may, or may not, have been necessary. Seems to have been done on a regular basis at one time.

[David Humphries]

The Dorchester Hotel, London plane

 

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