Have you ever wondered who or what may have stood in the exact same spot in years, decades or centuries past?
This project aims to bring this idea to life by selecting vintage photos from the museum collection and taking modern photos from exactly the same spot. The old is then blended with the new to bring the ghosts from Henfield's past into the present, superimposed exactly as they once were...
This project aims to bring this idea to life by selecting vintage photos from the museum collection and taking modern photos from exactly the same spot. The old is then blended with the new to bring the ghosts from Henfield's past into the present, superimposed exactly as they once were...
Braziers Forge / T. Miles Forge
Continuity and change: an early 20th century group photo outside 'John Brazier Practical Farrier & Smith' blended with 'T. Miles Blacksmith', 2018.
Image: Henfield Museum Collection/R. S. Gordon
Henfield Horses for the War / KT Nail Spa Opening
Henfield horses prior to what was almost certainly their final departure to the front in WW1 and the scene from 2018 just prior to the opening of the new K.T. Nail Spa in what was once the Eardley Hall Institute.
Image: Henfield Museum Collection/R. S. Gordon
Henfield High Street Edwardian Era / 2018
How many ghosts of the past can you spy in the modern scene? They stand in exactly the spots they were in a single moment over a century earlier.
Image: Henfield Museum Collection/R. S. Gordon
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