The Google street scene is fascinating. I am re-visiting places I have not been to for years. Memories come flooding back, but also the recognition of how things have changed. Closed pubs and shops, open spaces built on. It is the small changes that strike home - the chip shop now used for another purpose, the railway bridge that has been demolished, the factory now empty space, the colliery spoil heap removed and so on. All very nostalgic. It brings home how our physical environment changes slowly but significantly over twenty/thirty years.
These visits remind me of the people who lived in these places and again how things have changed. Our memories are fixed in locations and people that are not as they were.
A major advantage of the Google street scene is that you can explore places before visiting them. Very useful when booking a holiday in the UK.
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