SOME MORE THEN AND NOW SHOTS.
About 4 years ago before publishing his photographs on his own website, John McDonald kindly contacted me as someone who might be interested in the photographs he took of the Vauxhall area during his time as a fine art student in Sheffield. Needless to say I was very interested and assisted him in naming some of the places. Thankfully, with the advent of the internet, we are seeing a lot more photographs emerging that otherwise would have lay unseen and therefore unloved. All the black and white photographs were taken between 1978 and 1981 and are the copyright of John and my efforts follow his.
This is looking along Wilbraham Place towards Penrhyn Street and St Anthonys church from Wilbraham Street. The tenements on the left are Wilbraham House which replaced a church in the 1930s and were subsequently replaced by a petrol station, a version of which is still there on Scotland Road, currently operated by Shell.
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Chapel Gardens runs up from Great Homer Street to Scotland Road with the Throstles Nest at the top of it on the South and St Anthonys church at the top end of it on the North side. Old warehouse property on the left has been replaced with luxury apartments which have patio doors leading out to balconies. The churches rear yard now has mature trees.
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The Rising Sun on Green Street was owned by Mr & Mrs Mc and was in fact known locally as Mrs Mc's throughout the 1980s when pictured here. Portland Gardens tenement complex built in the 30s provided this and other pubs with a steady stream of patrons for a long time but alas the decreasing population saw a number of pubs close in the area, not least this one. Housing built in the mid 80s now occupies the site of the old tenements and even the pub is now a flats conversion.
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There are at least 3 styles of different housing captured in John's portrayal of Vauxhall life on Barmouth Street off Boundary Street which not long after this photograph would be demolished forever. The 22 storey Logan Towers, named after local MP, David Logan takes pride of place with maisonettes and and houses as near neighbours. Barmouth Way as it's now called doesn't look as striking though the houses will no doubt be a step up from their predecessors.
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For the rest of John's fantastic record of the Vauxhall area, please see his site here:
http://www.vauxhall-images.com/
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