Genealogy Australia

Changing Chichester concentrates on more recent changes, signposting the future with an urgent warning by showing the effects of demolition and re-development that, within the span of a single generation, have changed areas of the town beyond recognition. The demolition of Somerstown is described as '... one of the most tragic events of the post war years ... a whole Georgian district at the northern approach to the city razed to the ground and left derelict for a decade'. Photographs and drawings capture the atmosphere of the old city, its buildings, transport and tradesmen.