Bawburgh – St Mary and St Walstan Church (1939 and Now)

This is St Mary and St Walstan Church in Bawburgh as it looks in 2020, and as it looked from pretty much the same spot in 1939. Not much has changed, the grave in the bottom left of the photo is new, but in the older photo there’s a grave covered in ivy. That grave is still there, but the ivy has now been removed, although it has destroyed the inscription on the stone. Sometimes I wonder why some graves are badly damaged and illegible in cemeteries, this is one of the reasons why….

This becomes a bit of a spot the difference puzzle, but I quite like seeing what has changed. The slightly wonky drainpipe in the old photo has gone from where the nave meets the chancel, a tree has been removed in the foreground, but otherwise nearly everything is reassuringly unchanged over the last eighty years.