Photos of Hereford of Old: oldherefordpics.blogspot.com/
Everything changes. We age, we wither we die. So too do our buildings. Like us they are regularly replaced with a newer, fancier and (if we’re lucky) better model.
The skyline and appearance of our villages, towns and cities are perhaps one of the most noticeable and dramatic shifts that occur in our lifetimes. We can all remember older generations’ comments about “the way things were” and we have all witnessed the construction of an unsightly building where once there were fields and trees.
It is easy to lament the loss of paradise, enshrined in whimsical memory. It is even easier to feel disempowered and simply watch as new supermarkets are built in every corner of our towns. We could become aware of the grander scale and the fact that one day “all this shall be dust”; “this too shall pass” or we could realise deeply what we have lost and use it as motivation to act with peaceful righteousness and relentless gentleness to preserve (and even regrow) what has been concretised.
