A comparison of St Aldate’s, Oxford, looking north from Thames St, around 1900 and the same view today. – Vintage Photograph

This comparison of two photographs taken nearly a century apart shows the tremendous changes time has wrought in St Aldate’s, Oxford. The buildings which once lined the street are pictured in the photograph taken around 1900, with horses and carts clattering over the cobbles and primly-dressed women and lads in knickerbockers strolling along the pavements. The photograph taken in 1987 shows how little of the Victorian scene survives, with only the familiar bulk of Christ Church Tower, the building in the left foreground, and the Apollo pub behind remaining. The Waterman’s Arms, on the right of the old picture, is one of a number of pubs which were demolished on the east side of the road. In their place are the Memorial Gardens, University Music Faculty, the police station, and a block of city council flats.This comparison of two photographs taken nearly a century apart shows the tremendous changes time has wrought in St Aldate’s, Oxford. The buildings which once lined the street are pictured in the photograph taken around 1900, with horses and carts clattering over the cobbles and primly-dressed women and lads in knickerbockers strolling along the pavements. The photograph taken in 1987 shows how little of the Victorian scene survives, with only the familiar bulk of Christ Church Tower, the building in the left foreground, and the Apollo pub behind remaining. The Waterman’s Arms, on the right of the old picture, is one of a number of pubs which were demolished on the east side of the road. In their place are the Memorial Gardens, University Music Faculty, the police station, and a block of city council flats.

Dimensions: 19.5 x 24.8 cm

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ADD TOL pro = cx Todos savu ABOVE: St Aldate’s, looking north from Thames St, around 1900 TOP RIGHT: The same view today 6JAN 1987 79 TAKEN nearly a century apart, these two photo- graphs show the tremendous changes time has wrought in St Aldate’s, Oxford. E 6JAN 1007 The buildings which once lined the street are pictured in the late afternoon sun- shine of a summer’s day around 1900. Horses and carts clatter over the cobbles, primly- dressed women and lads in knickerbockers stroll along the pavements; in the dis- tance, a horse-drawn tram makes its way from Carfax. Peter Farr’s photograph taken from the same spol today shows how little of the Victorian scene survives: only the familiar bulk of Christ Tom Tower, at Church, the building in the left foreground and the Apollo pub behind. The Waterman’s Arms, on the right of the old pic- INFORD TE ture, is one of a number of pubs swept away by demoli- tion on the east side of the road, which continued until 10 years ago. In their place are the the Memorial Gardens, University Music Faculty, the police station (opened just before the last war) and the block of city council flats built about five years ago.