Originally Posted by
sheffield hatter
I understand your motives, and indeed I can remember suggesting something similar to Conrad after a pub I knew had completely changed its external paintwork so that old photos no longer represented the modern appearance. He didn't feel the need to suppress the old photos (expressed rather more strongly, as I recall, and not terribly diplomatically) and I have latterly come around to his view. As long as the old photo is a photo of the pub as it was, there's no need to suppress it. My only exemption from that would be, as expressed above, if the pub had been disfigured in some way - scaffolding, fire damage, completely boarded up (not the single boarded window of the Greyhound, in my view). I don't know what the other admins with powers of suppression think about this, as they haven't joined the discussion and there are no written guidelines.