The More Things Change ...

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Comparing London sites 86 years apart taken from the exact same place and angle, in stills and video from Claude Friese-Greene (1927) and Simon Smith (2013). The interesting thing here is how little has changed, really, and where it has, it's been made better or the changes have been subtle: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/london-in-1927-and-2013/