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This site shows historic photos of Blunsdon compared those same views taken today.

Using local historian Richard Radway's collection of 75 old photos each has been retaken with the same view today.

 

Photos can be accessed either through one of the location screens or via the list of location

 

On the location screen  'hot spots' indicate where the photo was taken.

- Placing the mouse on the 'hotspot' lists a dropdown list photos taken from that spot

- Clicking in the dropdown list will display the  photo

- The photo will display fading automatically between old and new

- Clicking the mouse will cycle through -> old imge (red border) -> new image (Green Border) -> auto fading (black border)

 

The site is currently under development as the images are populated

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Satellite Views

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Satellite Views

 

In the space a few years Blunsdon has expanded with a number of new developments.

These Google Earth maps show to change between 2002 to 2025 
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Introduction

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This site shows historic photos of Blunsdon compared to those same views taken today.

Using local historian Richard Radway's collection of old photos and postcards each photo has been retaken with the same view today.

Photos will fade between the old and new and can be frozen as required.

To view the photos use the menu bar above or links below.

- maps for histroic changes to Blunsdon

- high street for photos from locations

- outside high street wider locations

- list for all locations by name

 
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Historic Maps

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Historic Maps

Blunsdon has a rich history that
dates back to Roman times. 

The village of Broad Blunsdon
has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age. 

It was a settlement in Domesday Book with a recorded population of 10 households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday.

The site of a hillfort on Castle Hill
is a scheduled monument,
and a Roman travelers' resting place
existed on the site of the present day
Cold Harbour public house. 

This historic map dates Blunsdon
between 1899 and 1920
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