This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. 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 o ar perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
On a recent visit to Ashton Court in August 2025, I took this photo using an iPhone 13.
This photograph was taken in the 1990s using a Canon EOS 500 film camera, the print was scanned in using an Epson scanner. Though not quite the same perspective and location, it’s pretty close. Back then cars were allowed quite a way into the park to park (there were no meters back then either). You can also tell the age of this photograph from the age of the cars in the shot.
I have taken this shot (or a very similar shot) quite a few times over the years, as you can see here (and in this post).
This view was taken in October 2014 using a Canon EOS 400D.
I was there in June 2017 as well and took this very similar shot using an Apple iPhone 6s Plus.
This was on a visit to Ashton Court in September 2020 with an Apple iPhone 8.
Ashton Court is a mansion house and estate to the west of Bristol in England. Although the estate lies mainly in North Somerset, it is owned by the City of Bristol.