The Somme Then and Now

[Colin_Fraser]

Found this very clever youtube video. The author has painstakingly matched frames from Geoffrey Malins' famous Somme video to shots he has taken of the same area and has overlayed it. If you have watched the Malins film, this will really put some of his shots in context I think.

Colin

 

[housecarl]

Excellent Colin.
I've stood in Sunken Lane, very eerie.

 

[Helm]

Fascinating stuff Colin, uncanny how little it's changed
Steve

 

[JonH]

Echo that ! fascinating.
Jon

 

[DEL]

Thanks for posting Colin. As the guys said excellent and fascinating.
Clearly some remarkable research, planning and no little preparation has gone into this so hats off to the team who produced it
Cheers
Derek

 

[faust18]

Really interesting, im doing my first battle field tour of europe this summer somethings always come along but now ive more free time, cant wait, great tube =) Mick

 

[megroot]

I've seen this before and it is every time impressive.

Marc

 

[garyhiggins]

Thank you for posting this.
Gary.

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

as a military modeller I sometimes wonder why I paint when I watch films and news footage of the first world war ,also my very recent visit to ingolstadt and the museum in Reduit tilly and it's blown up pictures of what things were really like is so sobering ,you have got to think how the hell did it come to this and again 20 years later .

We should never forget the sacrifice of a whole generation on all sides