The maps illustrate the changes that took place between 1936 and 2007 in a town called Harborne.
Overall, the North-West and the East-Noorth underwent a number of dramatic changes, the most significant of which are the decreasing of trees for the former and at the latter.
In the North-West, most of trees were cut down while the cycle path was transformed to the road for demand of residents. In the center, post office, library and bank were still remained. Besides that, shopping center was constructed on the open space. Both sweet shop with butchers were changed to supermarket which was used for citizen’s daily needed. Moreover, flower shop was disappeared and travel agent was built replacing.
Take a closer look to the North-East, there has been residential was be added, replacing the river. The East-South saw a figure of differences, with Government offices beign turned into museum, farm land being coverted into golf course to make sure they were suitable for visitors and businesses.