OldPhotosInRealLife

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Comparing past and present locations through photography, on Lemmy.world

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[Modpost] Welcome Redditors! (self.oldphotosinreallife)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Hello all you new Lemmings fresh off the Reddit boat. Welcome to this alternative community to /r/oldphotosinreallife!

This is an (at least so far) and unofficially migration home for the old reddit community. Old Photos In Year Life was one of my favorite things to pop up in my feed on Sync over the years.

I started this out a few weeks ago after I transitioned away and found lemmy.world. I wanted to see what starting a community was like, so here we are!

We've got 120 subscribers as I write this, and hopefully more soon. However this community will only work with content, so I'm hoping some of the folk from the old place will continue to share their fascinating photos with us.

The rules on the right are pretty standard, please report anything that doesn't fit with those. If we start picking up momentum I'll ask for some mod help, so watch this space.

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Credit: 1920 Wikipedia, 2019 Myself.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Eastern entrance to Pentonville Tunnel and tunnel keeper's cottage, Regent's Canal, London

Credit 1905: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/980309/view/pentonville-tunnel-regent-s-canal-london-c1905 credit 2013: Google Streetview

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Cool post by the Londonist showing then and now ariel photos of the capital.

Credit: All images © Jason Hawkes

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Sources:

Posted originally on reddit

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul to c/oldphotosinreallife
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Credit to @tokyo_timeslip

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Another one from the Guardian, where they look at Moscow then and now.

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Since Oppenheimer is in the out in the Cinema, I thought I'd link to the then and now page in Guardian published back in 2015.

Both fascinating and tragic.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Credit:

1910 - View of the Wesleyan Church, Northcote, Auckland. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-001681-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22778618

2023 - Google Streetview

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Credit: 1937 - History Defined, 2020 - Jim Malcolm

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Omgarm to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

The city I've lived in for all my life :)

Source is this website: https://www.erfgoedshertogenbosch.nl/collecties/beeld-en-geluid

I used this page to explore all images: https://www.erfgoedshertogenbosch.beeldverkenner.nl/#

And here's a link to streetview of today: clicky

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

They opened back up and I submitted yesterday, now we’re in!

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Westminster Abbey (i.imgur.com)
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I don’t have a source for attribution, photos found on Pinterest

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Sorry about the trees..

More info on the building is available on Vauxhall History's website, and here on Wikipedia.

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[Modpost] Submission to sub.rehab (self.oldphotosinreallife)
submitted 2 years ago by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Given that the original version over on reddit is still private, and the protest shows no signs of stopping, I'd like to submit /c/oldphotosinreallife to sub.rehab.

To do this, we'd need to have at least three posts that aren't by the modteam (which is currently just myself).

If any visitors or new members can help by adding their own submission that would really great!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Credit: 1953 NYC Municipal Archives 2023 Myself

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Hayes, 1980s - 2022 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by seacocker to c/oldphotosinreallife
 
 

Credit: 1980s Stephen Hayles, 2022 Google Streetview