HAPPY NEW YEAR - 1918 HEREFORD

Whether by serendipity or synchronicity or otherwise (or at least something beginning with 's'), this photograph popped up from the archive:

Taken from almost exactly the same vantage point as our New Year 1939 photograph (see last blogpost), this one shows a military parade passing through Hereford's High Town some twenty years before, in 1918. Comparison shows the vast social change brought about the advent of the motor car, and the seeming permanence on the High Street of "Greenlands", locally known as "the Harrods of Hereford".

VBCW Note : VBCW historians (and other conspiracy theorists) deny that the above photograph is from 1918, pointing to a number of factors (rank badges, angles of stirrups, the shadows etc.) that clearly demonstrate this photograph evidences the entrance of Royalist troops into Hereford in 1938, following the opening defeats of local Anglicanism and the capture of the Bishop of Hereford himself.