London Street Views (1840)

It’s quite a bit more recent, but this reminded me of David Bleicher’s Instagram page “Then and Now London.” He takes photographs in the same London locations as photos taken decades ago and puts them side by side:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;thenandnowlondon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;thenandnowlondon&#x2F;</a>

I like the British Pathe films from the late 1890s &#x2F; early 1900s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dtRiMS34KxQ&amp;list=PLxYjYcgwalAXVXJkErCENBg8zAIWqITTF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dtRiMS34KxQ&amp;list=PLxYjYcgwal...</a><p>(More examples in the playlist.)<p>Large parts of London still look the same, but the way of life is vastly different. Just on a surface level, you can see how roads are used differently (there are a few horses and a lot of pedestrians) and with poorly insulated buildings everyone has to wear insulation.

I love seeing the (1840) in the title.<p>For a split second it makes my pre-coffee brain think, my god that’s an old post!

Feature request, can someone integrate this into the DOOM engine so one can navigate 19th century london?

looks great once you zoom in but I don&#x27;t get it. how do I open one of them to look at it - I can only zoom into the whole mosaic - why can I not click on one of them and bring it to the front or go to a page that deals with that view&#x2F;street?

There seems to be quite a lot of detail in all of these drawings, I wonder if one can&#x27;t reconstruct an actual street view given all that data, and a few historical paintings to &quot;seed the color and style&quot; a bit. Probably not impossible to do with modern LLMs

Ran these through some AI color&#x2F;restore workflows: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;london-street-views-1840-set-1-Ss1hqk2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;london-street-views-1840-set-1-Ss1...</a>

Ed Ruscha&#x27;s riff on this 120 years later: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;146931" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;146931</a>

I love it. Never seen this kinda concept before. But it totally makes sense to map whole streets like this.

Looks like the image in thumbnail preview is all you’re getting, and at that low resolution.

If there&#x27;s a map, and a sidebar with overflow, please don&#x27;t have a page-level scrollbar, put the scrollbar on the sidebar that needs scroll functionality =(