GHOSTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - OLD IMAGES OF WWI SOLDIERS superimposed on today's Britain

Despite so many of Britain’s streets being packed with history, it can be hard to imagine what was happening on them 100 years ago.

But these composite images show how places across London and further afield looked during the First World War compared to now.

In one photo, German prisoners of war are seen being marched on their way to Southend Pier in Essex accompanied by guards in 1914.

This archive image from the war has been matched with a present-day photo of the seafront in the sunshine, taken earlier this month.

Further up the east coast, wartime bomb damage in Lowestoft, Suffolk, has been matched up with a modern-day view of the same street.

And a view of London’s Sloane Street shows US troops marching in 1918, compared to a photo of it as a present-day shopping metropolis.

The new photos by Getty Images photographer Peter Macdiarmid have been matched up with archive shots from various image banks.  Other composites include images of Brighton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and Great Dixter in East Sussex.

 

Read more and see additional pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2707568/First-World-War-photos-soldiers-marching-streets-superimposed-modern-day-images.html

 

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