Cornwall Past and Present

One of the lovely things about Cornwall is how it seems so unchanged year on year.  Yes, the coffee shops will be upgraded and that drafty cottage you may have stayed in will have been spruced up with luxury features but walking around St Ives, you get that feeling that you are looking at a landscape that has hardly changed for decades.  Look past the cars and the signs and you can just imagine the washing hanging up and a fisherman sat on his stairs...

I stumbled across this great Facebook group Old Pictures of Cornwall and discovered a multitude of beautiful photos of Cornwall past and present.  I have become a bit obsessed about trying to find the locations and updating for their Then and Now section with modern day photos of older locations.

How about an old photo of Porthmeor Road...

THEN

 AND NOW

Back Street East, St Ives

THEN

NOW

HARBOUR

It is a shame that the fishing boats are now missing but you can still take a boat trip out to Seal Island and for a spot of fishing too.

THEN

 NOW

I wonder if one of our holiday photos will be part of a then and now 100 years from now?

Hannah