Ghosts of the Blitz

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    11 comments to Ghosts of the Blitz

    • Jas

      Wow! These are amazing! Thanks for sharing!

    • Tom Murphy

      You might have seen this before, but here’s a Russian lad who does something similar

    • The Retronaut is always one or two steps ahead or behind you, Tom…

    • VonsterVon

      I always like these retrographs…I particularly like the one of the car “in” the road, I live in Bristol and recognise this place clearly. must have been terrifying.

    • Don

      While images such as these are amazingly well-done, I always wish that we’d also get to see the unaltered images, separately.

      I especially feel that way with the image sets where someone is holding an old photo over a location… without knowing how the location looks today, it loses a lot of its allure to me. I love to compare the images and see just what has changed, and you can’t do that if details are obscured.

    • Jackie

      Never seen anything like this. Amazing This is the London that my mother tried to describe to me when I was starting work in the city in the sixties. She had no photos it was just words.

    • el

      These remind me of the images of the Streetmuseum app
      http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/may/streetmuseum-app

    • Tom

      Truly amazing!
      I love this window-to-the-past theme. Please, if you have more of this, share them!

      Another excellent post! thanks!

    • Aruvqan

      I love this type of image. I can only imagine how terrifying the blitz must have been. The contrast between freshly bombed and current image is amazing.

    • Blue

      Creative idea, yeah

    • andy

      you can still see the blast marks on some of the buildings still standing

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