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Well, it's first move was across a road and into an upside down pyramid. (there were a few before that but those were in Dennis's time) Now a move across a few streets and next to a building that celebrates the developer of text fonts...and a friend of Benny Franklin...into a building...

At the time it must have been a fairly large indoor area to be under one roof.

Ok, Marg. So the gate and fence would have run along Gerrard which places Furnace Lane, or what was left of it at that point, on the right side of the picture. That makes sense since the address was Gerrard St at the time of the picture and that would be the entrance to the property. So the view...

The second map 1848 is a bit of a surprise. I think it shows what surely must be Guildford House and it's boundary pretty well. Furnace lane is a bit sketchy but can be made out. The area to the right of the Furnace shows development not seen before and it is where the huge mound of spoil used...

On the Tench front, I saw hundreds of them in a canal at Tiverton one day. The canal now has been dredged but back then it was overgrown and divided by weeds and in one small section was this writhing mass just under the water. What the story was I don't know...maybe little rain and low level of...

This one of Furnace Lane might have been fairly close. I think that Clifford might be at the bottom. Posted by another person on here a few years back.

Just thinking about it...Furnace Lane probably followed a boundry line between properties and in past contributions it was thought that the lane was the route taken to transfer ashes from Aston Furnace to the build site of Aston Hall. Used in foundations...maybe to make cinder blocks or concrete...

A great find and documents. Never noticed that house in Furnace Lane before and since the lane was so close to the house one wonders which came first. The pictures show the house further away. First class observation of the house at the bottom of the court...super bit of provenance also. On a...

#579 & #577. Two super new photo's. Yeah, dates are right I think. #579 is what many on here will remember and flat side of the building...up the hill to the right was what was left after the clean-up of bomb damage. I seem to remember that from there down to Moore St was levelled and remained...

People still turm a blind eye and it might be well to remember that those laid off and outsourced need cheap stuff to manage. No company defined benefit pensions, or any pension at all for temps, or large union support = reduced spending budget.

The just posted photo is taken from Furnace Lane itself from about the rear of Alma Street School I think. The earlier colour photo of demolition shows the same sheds from a different angle on Porchester. Good Photo not seen before. The back yards of some of the houses on Porchester, backing on...

The C&A in post #22 is current I believe. The sixties building was a replacement of bomb damage and was set back from the sidewalk for some reason...so that building has been replaced again...looking at the photo which shows a building flush with the sidewalk. Great photo.

These pictures are too disturbing to look at. Especially so if the only replacements are warehouses.

Any superimposing would be done the opposite way I think and most of this can be recognised on the 1890 OS map which is very accurate and can already be superimposed on Google Earth. If this technique was not used to produce the material I would be suprised. In any case it's accuracy is open to...

If you could have looked at that building from about the same spot in the early 1800s, you would have seen a huge mound of ash and cinders higher than the building and stretching back beyond where Alma Street School was and of course tapering back down to the ground. A famous photo/picture is...

Any dog owner would recognise this scene. The dog has found a sniff message and the owners are urging the dog to move on.

Funny, I can't remember seeing #1946 before. The best one I think of the old buildings at the top of Hill Street. They seem to take you back to way before...photography and the Town Hall and even Christchurch. Maybe to a time when New St station was not in being and Pinfold Street ran down past...

That's not a road, it's the other side of the court. Yeah the washing facilities look abandoned by this time. The houses would probably have been 'modernised'...a cold water tap and single electric outlet. Possibly the old fireplaces with cooking stove attached would have been removed by this...

I always thought that Burlington Passage was pretty much an arcade...not covered but full of stores and a gents hairdresser. I suspect it is still there.

Splendid photo. You would think it was early 1900s or so, but I bet it is not and probaly late 50s or even sixties.