Two walks, 45 years apart. Mile End to Limehouse Basin (3) Then and now.
Regents canal. (top) April 1979 (lower) April 2024
To follow up on the last two posts, here are some direct comparisons of pictures from 1979 and 2024. In these picture pairs, April 1979 is black and white at the top; April 2024 is in colour and below.
1. Railway bridge over Bow Common Lane.
2. Terraced houses, Bow Common Lane.
3. Courtyard, Bow Common Lane.
4. Apartment block and the Britannia pub, Bow Common Lane. The pub was demolished around 2012, but the apartment block is still there.
5. Looking up Burdett Road to the junction with the A11.
6. Regents Canal: Johnson’s lock.
7. Johnson's Lock, Regent's Canal, looking north. The lower view was taken from behind the bollard you can see behind the lock gate on the left hand side of the upper picture. Most of the old buildings have now been replaced by new apartment blocks, except for some old warehouses(??) that have now been refurbished.
8. Under grey Crescent Bridge.Taken from just south of Grey Crescent Bridge. About the only things that remain are the Mile End Sewer Vent Chimney and the railway bridge beyond it. The Canary Wharf business district tower blocks now dominate the far distance.
9. Limehouse basin.
Just one more image…
10. Lockhart St. This is a then-and-now of the street where my friends lived. The lady in the red bonnet is quite a marker of the times. Picture taken on Kodachrome 25. (Goodness knows why I was using that film. I think I only ever shot about two rolls of it, and never liked it nearly as much as K64.)