Here’s a picture of an old feller walking in Sheffield.
I took it about fifteen years ago when I was walking around the old neighbourhood where I grew up. It’s taken at the corner of Crowder Road and Crowder Crescent, and I’d have said it was on the Longley Estate, but it could be the Southey Green Estate: these things are finely nuanced and I’ve been gone a long time.
I don’t make any claims for myself as a photographer but I’m rather pleased with this one: the twisting of the trees contrasted with the bending of the old man. (Are they trees? I suppose they may be bushes or shrubs, but never mind). And for one reason another I decided to take a look on Google Street View to see what had been happening on that corner. This view, dated 2021, shows that the twisty trees are gone.
What a sad thing.
However, if you let Street View take you into the side street, Crowder Crescent, they’re still there. They’re not looking as healthy as in my pic but they’re hanging in there. But that picture is dated 2012.
So we can say that somewhere between 2012 and 2021 those trees were either removed or possibly they just died. It seems a sad thing but it may be nature taking its course.
The old man, I assume, is long, long gone.
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