A subreddit named r/OldPhotosInRealLife has created huge archives of ‘then and now’ photos to show how time changes things.
Oxford, England
So little has changed between JMW Turner’s painting from 1810 and the photograph taken over 200 years later in 2015!
The Arctic 103 Years Ago Compared To Today
Chichen Itza 1892 And Now
The majestic Head of Kukulcán, situated at the base of the staircase of the ‘EI Castillo’ pyramid within the archaeological site of Chichén Itzá, captured in 1895 and 2022
Manhattan in 1851 and today
Brooklyn Bridge past and present
The Shambles In York (UK) Inspiration For Diagon Alley From Harry Potter. Late 1800s And Today
One of the world’s oldest underground stations, Baker Street, London, 157 years apart.
Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world’s first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.
