This page allows you to easily compare the scene shown
on an old postcard with how that view looks today.
I have taken a great deal of care to ensure that the modern
now photograph has been taken from the same location, using the same
focal length and in similar lighting conditions to that used
experienced by the original photographer.
Blaven from Torrin
The then postcard carries the reference
"19227" and was published by Judges Ltd. of Hastings.
The date of the original photograph can be estimated as being between 1937,
when the iconic white cottage on the far side of Loch Slapin was built, and
1940 when the cottage to the right was rebuilt and extended.
Attached to this cottage is a small corrugated iron hut with the words
"Torrin Shop" painted on the roof. After the shop closed in the 1960s
the hut was moved 30 metres (100 feet), just out of shot to the right, and continues
to serve as a domestic shed and garage (see the
Gallery page).
The roofless cottage right of centre was demolished in the 1980s to make way for
the modern
house that appears in the now image.
The now photograph was taken on New Year's day 2009.
Using the buttons above:
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Click the Cycle button to toggle the automatic cycling or fading between the
then and now image;
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Click the Overlay button to display the
images at the current level of opacity (transparency);
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Use the < and
> buttons to change the opacity level;
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Click the B&W button to toggle the display of the images in black and white;
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Click the Caption button to toggle the overlaying of captions indicating points of interest.