Then And Now

This section of the site is provided in partnership with The Swindon Society and The Richard Jefferies Society. It enables you to see how the surrounding area used to look and learn more about your town. We are adding value by providing a current photograph taken as far as possible from the same position. The project involves a fair bit of detective work, so if you can add or correct information, please get in touch. This is your site, so if you would like to get involved in extending this project, please let us know.

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Wood Street, No.17 Keylock & Co Butchers, 1897 June 1, 1897 Then
Cromwell Street, William & Mary Hooper on tandem, 1897

William and Mary Hooper on one of their classic modes of transport a tandem tricycle.

June 1, 1897 Then
Mechanics Institute, Library Card

Mechanics Institute Library card.

September 1, 1897 Then
Mechanics Reading Rooms

Newspapers and magazines arrived hot off the press every day on the fast new express trains and Victorian Swindonians could consult a huge range of up to date journals in this, the forerunner of the public library system.

January 1, 1898 Then
GWR, Station Hotel Fire

After a serious fire, leading to the closure of the hotel which had been operating on the station

June 1, 1898 Then