January 2016 – Poland Poland

Szczecin in the 1970s

szczecin 1971 pl — A view across the River Odra (Oder) to the Cathedral in Szczecin in 1970.

A selection of newly scanned images of the city of Szczecin (Stettin) in Poland as it looked in the 1970s.

1970 szczecin pl — Nightime on al. Wojska Polskiego in Szczecin, Poland, in early 1970.

1970 szczecin — The Kino Kosmos on al. Wojska Polskiego in Szczecin in around 1970.

1971 szczecin — Socialist apartment blocks on pl. Grunwaldzki in Szczecin, Poland, c.1970.

1971 szczecin stettin — Trams and cars on Aleja Wojska Polskiego in Szczecin, Poland in 1971.

More archive images of Stettin / Szczecin through time.

PRL or Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa (Polish People’s Republic) was the official name of Poland between 1952 and 1989. We have an extensive collection of photographs of Poland during this period of time and aim to scan and put many of these online in this section of the Poland Poland website.

To get the ball rolling here are a selection of images from that communist-era of the Ulica Kilińskiego area of the small town of Sulęcin in the province of Lubuskie in the far west of Poland.

Sulęcin 1970 — A similar view of the 14th century Church of St. Nicholas in Sulęcin but ten years on.

Sulęcin 1973 — By 1973 the once impressive buildings destroyed in the arson in 1945 had been replaced by socialist style buildings. Social apartment blocks, a restaurant, and shops.

Compare these views with a photograph from 1918 of the same part of Zielenzig / Sulęcin.

More about Sulęcin (former Zielenzig) on our original site.

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This part of the Poland Poland is currently undergoing a revamp using the WordPress system rather than the html coding we have used since first starting the website way back in 2004. Please come back soon to see the progress we are making. It will be a blog-like in appearance and feature selected news from Poland; images of Poland, past and present; and bits and pieces on everyday life in Poland.

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