Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
► Points of interest in this video :
This view is centred over where Lara Croft Way meets Babington Lane/Burton road/Green Lane/Mercian Way/Normanton Road. You will have to watch this one quite a few times looking at different areas.
There are substantial changes in this then and now, The Little City area of Derby was cleared 1953-1958 and then in 2009 Derby's inner ring road was completed with the building
of Lara Croft Way and Mercian Way connected with a new roundabout, this carved right through this view. It was opened on 27th July 2010.
Notice how Sacheverel Street used to be twice as long, it was cleared in the 1970's. Wilmot Street used to connect Osmaston Road and Normanton Road.
Little City had streets such as Trafalgar Street, Cannon Street, Harlem Street, Waterloo Street, Eley Street, Grey Street, Britannia Street.
☑ Please read the description above as I have detailed all the things of interest that you can see have changed as well as bit of history you may not know.
I have made this fading then and now video using two vertical top-down photographs of a location, one taken by the RAF in the 1940's and one from Google Maps Satellite view, I have
lined them up precisely with each other so that you can watch as it fades back and forth to reveal what has changed in the decades that have passed between
the two views. Sometimes the changes are massive, sometimes they are subtle, its well worth taking your time looking at different areas of the view as you will keep spotting things.
☑ It takes a lot of time to get the two views lined up with each other so precisely as the old 1940's RAF photographs are not taken on northerly flightpaths, so it means having to
rotate the 2026 view around until North matches up with North in the 1940's photographs. Then I have to match the scale, aspect ratio, Pixel spread, lens distortion and dimensions but I think the great effort I put into
making these "vertical photo then and now" videos is well worth it, let me know in the comments if you enjoyed the effort I put in and if you would like to see more.
☑ To get the most out of these presentations you really need to view them on a big screen or least a PC/Laptop with a proper screen as viewing them on a small phone screen
you simply won’t be able to see all the details properly. If you open the video in the YouTube App on your phone and you are on your homes Wi-Fi network and have a
smart TV turned on (TV's have had this YT casting feature since 2016). Simply tap the cast icon (next to the Gear icon on the screen) and select your TV from the list,
you may have to type in a code to pair it, you now know how to enjoy my videos in 4K ! If you don’t have a Smart TV or a PC then the best thing is to at least install the YouTube app and view the videos in that in Fullscreen mode, its
worth noting that once you are playing a video you can zoom in on the video using two fingers as a way of seeing more details.
View A : 16th April 1948
View B : Google Satellite view 2026
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to share the link to my video to anyone interested.
Best viewed on a large computer screen or smart TV as this is recorded in 4K resolution with great music so a real waste watching it on a small phone screen. Did you know you can cast it to your smart tv from the YouTube app?
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Music Credits :
'The Restoration' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
youtube.com/watch?v=22KHaYz8Row
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► Points of interest in this video :
This view is centred over where Lara Croft Way meets Babington Lane/Burton road/Green Lane/Mercian Way/Normanton Road. You will have to watch this one quite a few times looking at different areas.
There are substantial changes in this then and now, The Little City area of Derby was cleared 1953-1958 and then in 2009 Derby's inner ring road was completed with the building
of Lara Croft Way and Mercian Way connected with a new roundabout, this carved right through this view. It was opened on 27th July 2010.
Notice how Sacheverel Street used to be twice as long, it was cleared in the 1970's. Wilmot Street used to connect Osmaston Road and Normanton Road.
Little City had streets such as Trafalgar Street, Cannon Street, Harlem Street, Waterloo Street, Eley Street, Grey Street, Britannia Street.
☑ Please read the description above as I have detailed all the things of interest that you can see have changed as well as bit of history you may not know.
I have made this fading then and now video using two vertical top-down photographs of a location, one taken by the RAF in the 1940's and one from Google Maps Satellite view, I have
lined them up precisely with each other so that you can watch as it fades back and forth to reveal what has changed in the decades that have passed between
the two views. Sometimes the changes are massive, sometimes they are subtle, its well worth taking your time looking at different areas of the view as you will keep spotting things.
☑ It takes a lot of time to get the two views lined up with each other so precisely as the old 1940's RAF photographs are not taken on northerly flightpaths, so it means having to
rotate the 2026 view around until North matches up with North in the 1940's photographs. Then I have to match the scale, aspect ratio, Pixel spread, lens distortion and dimensions but I think the great effort I put into
making these "vertical photo then and now" videos is well worth it, let me know in the comments if you enjoyed the effort I put in and if you would like to see more.
☑ To get the most out of these presentations you really need to view them on a big screen or least a PC/Laptop with a proper screen as viewing them on a small phone screen
you simply won’t be able to see all the details properly. If you open the video in the YouTube App on your phone and you are on your homes Wi-Fi network and have a
smart TV turned on (TV's have had this YT casting feature since 2016). Simply tap the cast icon (next to the Gear icon on the screen) and select your TV from the list,
you may have to type in a code to pair it, you now know how to enjoy my videos in 4K ! If you don’t have a Smart TV or a PC then the best thing is to at least install the YouTube app and view the videos in that in Fullscreen mode, its
worth noting that once you are playing a video you can zoom in on the video using two fingers as a way of seeing more details.
View A : 16th April 1948
View B : Google Satellite view 2026
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to share the link to my video to anyone interested.
Best viewed on a large computer screen or smart TV as this is recorded in 4K resolution with great music so a real waste watching it on a small phone screen. Did you know you can cast it to your smart tv from the YouTube app?
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Music Credits :
'The Restoration' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
youtube.com/watch?v=22KHaYz8Row
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