During the past 50 years Skövde has changed a lot, and this becomes very clear when you look at old photographs – sometimes it even feels as if you are in an entirely different city! A town has to change to develop, and sometimes that means that some buildings must be torn down to leave space for new ones. When it comes to Skövde, after working with this series and looking at an infinite number of old pictures, I think that way too many houses were allowed to decay and become a victim for the excavators.
Anna Warner
The block where you nowadays find Skövde City Hall is called Skomakaren (The Shoemaker). In the past there was indeed a shoemaker living here, and the block looked very different.
As in many other quarters in Skövde there was also a courtyard surrounded by low wooden houses in this block. The shoemaker Brandt lived in one of them.
It is unknown when the picture was taken. It may have been either in the 1940’s or 1950’s.