Books Cumbria : Places : West Cumbria : Wigton Through Time Wigton Through Time Trevor Grahamslaw £14.99 Wigton Through Time contains 180 photographs of Wigton, of which 90 are old photographs. Some printed in a sepia tone and some printed in full colour. These photographs are printed along side a contemporary full colour photograph which illustrates the same scene. The contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed and developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate shops, schools, garages, churches, houses and street scenes, each photograph is captioned and the book has an introduction which gives a brief overview of the history of the town. As you browse through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number of vehicles on the road, shops that once sold new goods are now estate agents or charity shops. Green fields have been transformed into industrial estates, houses or ring roads. Publisher : Amberley Published : May 2010 Pages : 96 Format : 165mm x 234mm paperback Illustrations : Colour & sepia photographs ISBN : 9781848688063 Quantity:  Review It’s intriguing how places change. Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more and the street scene seems much the same apart from the traffic and the shop fronts. Thomlinson School in 1899 with its fine windows and grand portico is the same bricks and mortar as today’s building, but place two photos side by side and it looks a totally different building. The great pleasure of Trevor Grahamslaw’s book is this nostalgic game of spot the difference. The Fountain, High Street, King Street, George Street and Cheesy Brough have all changed and yet have remained the same. But the boys in their school caps and the girl in her pinafore dress who posed by the Fountain in 1897 are very different from the man in jeans who slouches on the railings of the newly-restored George Moore Memorial.