This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.
I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.
After a recent visit to Cheddar I was reviewing some photographs from previous visits and realised I had taken two similar photographs of the (then) historic Cox’s Mill Hotel. This was a hotel built on the site of a former mill dated back to the mid 1800s.
This was taken in August 2013 with a Canon EOS 400D digital camera.
This view of the now boarded up hotel was taken in May 2021 with an iPhone 8.
However in October 2022 the hotel was demolished as it was beyond economic repair and the space has been turned into initially a public space, but is now a motorbike parking area.
This (almost) similar shot was taken in January 2024 with an iPhone 13.
I took this photograph in April 2016 with an iPhone 17 Pro Max of the water area.
