Now and then...

... in Harrogate's Oxford Street, previously called Chapel Street.

That makes two historical blips in a row.

On Monday mornings, I can usually be found at the central library helping to catalogue  and identify photographs of old Harrogate. Most weeks I come away with a project to try to find where the old photograph was taken and what it looks like today.

Here we see Oxford Street in the town centre in about 1900 with lots of small shops on the right of the picture. These have been replaced in stages over a century or so. This part of the street is now occupied by much larger retailers with much less interesting buildings.

It is often difficult to identify the position of the original camera but that was relatively easy in this case with the upper bay windows on the left as my marker. Today the problem was trying to stand where the original photographer stood, because the space was blocked by a 20th century relic - a phone box - so I couldn't quite get into the same position.