n these pages, I have attempted to stand in the footprints of photographers who pictorially documented our City of Coventry many decades ago. Wherever possible, I have tried to recreate the same direction and perspective that is recorded in the original shots, so that a direct comparison can be made, between the views that we now recognise, and those seen by our ancestors.
For the benefit of those of you not familiar with all the places on these pages, I have placed links next to each Heading labelled Camera No. 1, 2, etc. Clicking these will reveal a map showing where each photograph was taken from. Clicking on the correspondingly numbered camera icon will return you to the page you came from. You may wish to use this map as an index to this "now and them" section, although unfortunately, a small number of places are outside the area covered by the map.
For those of you with JavaScript enabled on your computer, (most should be) I've made some of the photos a 2-in-1 picture. Some will require a mouse-click to fade-in & fade-out (like the one below) - others will change when the mouse is held over the image. I've explained which is necessary by each one.
Arts School, Ford Street. Camera No. 49
Many will be familiar with this view across the back of Pool Meadow, with Swanswell gate in the background. But as time rolls on, fewer people will remember that Ford Street once continued on from its dead end off Cox Street, and joined at the junction of Hales Street and White Street.
Please click here if you wish to see the two photo's separately.
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