Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

This is a painting of Bromsgrove House from 1962, back when the plan was to turn it into a shiny new car showroom. The artist, whoever they were, sketched it like a time capsule—flat lighting, no drama, just the building sitting there in its postwar future. It feels like the kind of thing you’d find tucked in a municipal folder, not a gallery wall, which makes it perfect for this app: tap it and you’ll see how the suburbs rebranded themselves, block by block.