Following my recently pictorial surveys of the top of College Street, around Lovecraft’s final home, here are some nice clear views of the lower end of the street and its hill.

Here’s the same view about five years later as postcard…

And perhaps another few years on, at the dawn of the automobile-age…

Lovecraft possibly about 15 years old by that time.

And further along in the automobile-age, the same junction in 1935, in which the illustrator rather optimistically imagined that fast cars and pedestrians would mix. Two pedestrians in the picture appear to be hesitantly walking out into oncoming traffic!

This run of new frontages was just an architect’s fancy, but was built as planned and (judging by a photograph I saw) it did look like the drawings when completed.