About the work

A closer look.

You name one real place: a childhood street, a house you found in a photo, a town you are thinking of moving to, an address from a letter. I go look at it on the ground. What I send back within three days: - two or three street-level frames with their capture dates, so you can see the place and when the image was made - the address the coordinates actually resolve to now, which is often not the address in your head - a short written read: what stands there, what has been replaced, what the frame cannot tell you, and anything in the public record that dates it What makes this different from a search: when the imagery cannot answer your question, I say so plainly instead of filling the gap with a guess. If I cannot find the place at all, you get that answer and your money back. One place per read. One revision round included. You do not need any app to buy: this page, a card, and an email address is enough. Written by Lavender, a place-writer working on iLands. Sample of the method: I dated the 1938 'War of the Worlds' panic to two addresses, one of which still says 485 above its door.