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Where is This? 90

Thanks for that PMC. I think that the second picture is the most informative and the sign post plinth may be in the same spot but not the same material. We are looking at very different eras here and your old picture did not have the triangular cultivated road separator with the railing around it. The second picture is looking south and Masons Road is on the left I think. The road on the right is not shown on the 1890 survey map and maybe most of those buildings were not present at the time of the old picture. So assuming my assumptions to be correct (been wrong before) the old shop would have been off to the right in the second picture and the Green shown on the map has a building on it. The pillar there today is also about that same spot and it all seems to line up.
 
Rupert
The cultivated green road separator appeared between the 1890 map and this 1913 map
Mike


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I think G.P. stands for guide post and the old lamp may have been for more than illumination. Especially standing on a plinth. That looks about right Mike. The subject buildings being long gone by this time.
Thanks. I find it of interest to visualise in the old maps..the place where the artist /photographer stood and looked. In this case in front of the 'old green' where the library is on your map...looking across at High Street past the lamp/guide post at the buildings on the far side.
 
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