Sometimes very old photographs of the village are difficult to make sense of, as they offer us scenes that no longer exist. Everything in this c1900 image is still there today (bar the railway line and bridge) but a lot of the empty spaces have been filled in long ago. Many of the buildings visible from this viewpoint then are now obscured. This was a popular spot for photographers over the years and various postcards from different eras allow us to build up a clearer understanding of the order in which houses were built.
Just a few years before the above image was captured, none of the buildings in the foreground would have existed. There would have been a clear view of the arc of villas that is Crescent Road, with the School at its centre (these were built closer to 1860). The Lundin Links Hotel would have been the original two-storey inn which used to occupy the site, rather than its present incarnation (shown newly built in the above picture). The almost total lack of trees in the 1900 view is interesting in comparison to the up-to-date view below. The 1900 photo is one of these images that makes you wish you could step back in time and see what else has changed over the past century or so.
Just a few years before the above image was captured, none of the buildings in the foreground would have existed. There would have been a clear view of the arc of villas that is Crescent Road, with the School at its centre (these were built closer to 1860). The Lundin Links Hotel would have been the original two-storey inn which used to occupy the site, rather than its present incarnation (shown newly built in the above picture). The almost total lack of trees in the 1900 view is interesting in comparison to the up-to-date view below. The 1900 photo is one of these images that makes you wish you could step back in time and see what else has changed over the past century or so.
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