| Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by grahame at 07:07, 3rd December 2025 |     |
Can you place the picture? Estimate the year it was taken?
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I will follow up with my sources afterwards
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Timmer at 07:18, 3rd December 2025 | |
Is number 4 Taunton?
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by grahame at 07:21, 3rd December 2025 | |
Is number 4 Taunton?
I scrolled down to look wondering if that was a serious suggestion until I saw what picture that was!
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by eightonedee at 07:28, 3rd December 2025 | |
I assume 5 is the closed St Lawrence Station on the Isle of Wight (as that's the name on the station sign!).
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Timmer at 07:34, 3rd December 2025 | |
Is number 4 Taunton?
I scrolled down to look wondering if that was a serious suggestion until I saw what picture that was!
Apologies, couldn’t resist.
Chris from Nailsea will be gutted if there’s no historic picture of Taunton for him to take a guess at.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by rogerpatenall at 07:56, 3rd December 2025 | |
No 2 is on the S&D. Probably Shepton Mallet.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by grahame at 08:05, 3rd December 2025 | |
I assume 5 is the closed St Lawrence Station on the Isle of Wight (as that's the name on the station sign!).
No, it's not on the Isle of Wight ... there are / were at least one other "St Lawrence"
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Andy E at 08:48, 3rd December 2025 | |
No 10 Hunstanton, 1967?
Edited as I didn’t include a date.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Oxonhutch at 09:04, 3rd December 2025 | |
3: Melrose station on the Borders Railway between closure and lifting in the early 1970s and the building of the current bypass in 1987.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 09:09, 3rd December 2025 | |
I assume 5 is the closed St Lawrence Station on the Isle of Wight (as that's the name on the station sign!).
No, it's not on the Isle of Wight ... there are / were at least one other "St Lawrence"
St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay, in Ramsgate.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by PrestburyRoad at 09:41, 3rd December 2025 | |
1. Chirk chipboard factory, or if it's not there then somewhere in Scotland at the other end of the route, where the timber is loaded.
Date - I guess 1975 judging by the man's clothing and hairstyle.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by ellendune at 10:29, 3rd December 2025 | |
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by stuving at 11:25, 3rd December 2025 | |
I've seen picture 9 before. I guess there are only so many old photos of Melksham available.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by matth1j at 11:40, 3rd December 2025 | |
I've seen picture 9 before. I guess there are only so many old photos of Melksham available.
Ha - I was going to post that Google Lens was a good way to identify the locations in these photos (after they'd all been identified). But in fact Lens first told me (confidently) it was Alveston, then Google AI told me it was Bilston Central 
To be fair, I didn't recognise it either, despite having passed through it this morning - it's definitely changed 
A slightly larger version of that photo appears here http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/oldpics2.html which might have been where you saw it.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 13:06, 3rd December 2025 | |
6. Denton station, near Manchester.
It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.
A wild guess, therefore: 1970?
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by stuving at 14:12, 3rd December 2025 | |
I've seen picture 9 before. I guess there are only so many old photos of Melksham available.
Ha - I was going to post that Google Lens was a good way to identify the locations in these photos (after they'd all been identified). But in fact Lens first told me (confidently) it was Alveston, then Google AI told me it was Bilston Central To be fair, I didn't recognise it either, despite having passed through it this morning - it's definitely changed A slightly larger version of that photo appears here http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/oldpics2.html which might have been where you saw it.
I've seen it on here, probably in another quiz or maybe just 'cos it's Melksham.
Its date? later than you'd guess at first sight. That railway layout was largely the same from the late 1800s (the footbridge the photo was taken off was a bit later) to the 1960s. But the vehicles in the yard at the back are right for about 1960. So late 50s seems likely.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Witham Bobby at 14:25, 3rd December 2025 | |
6. Denton station, near Manchester.
It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.
A wild guess, therefore: 1970?
It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.
A wild guess, therefore: 1970?
Winter-time. To judge from the salt that's been broadcast on the stairs and platform
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by PrestburyRoad at 14:34, 3rd December 2025 | |
Going back to 9, that building looks just like the survivor at the eastern end of Stroud station - and long may that continue as an example of Brunel's work.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by WSW Frome at 15:11, 3rd December 2025 | |
After the hint, No 2 is Masbury. The picture looks like a postcard and one can only guess at the 1950's.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by stuving at 16:41, 3rd December 2025 | |
6. Denton station, near Manchester.
It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.
A wild guess, therefore: 1970?
It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.
A wild guess, therefore: 1970?
Of course that one might be a recent colour picture - even as recent as last year - which has had the colours drained away quizmagisterially.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:45, 3rd December 2025 | |
Chris from Nailsea will be gutted if there’s no historic picture of Taunton for him to take a guess at.
Ahem.
I never guess at pictures of Taunton, because I know that they are not ... until I'm usually proved wrong.
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:46, 3rd December 2025 | |
Of course that one might be a recent colour picture - even as recent as last year - which has had the colours drained away quizmagisterially.
Whoever would do such a thing ??
| Re: Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3.12.2025 Posted by bradshaw at 18:09, 3rd December 2025 | |
This article, from the BBC, shows parts of the S&DJR as they are today. Masbury station is about halfway down
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78m3vv9d1zo
