Bay Harbour: March 03, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday March 3 2021
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Bid to recreate images from the past
• By Samantha Mythen
A LYTTELTON man has taken
part in a nostalgic social media
trend seen around the world,
recreating a photo from his
childhood.
He hopes others will do the
same and also share on their
social media.
Standing outside Lyttelton
Primary school, Jordan Paulsen
posed to recreate a photo taken
of himself 25 years earlier,
outside what was then Lyttelton
Main school.
This generated many positive
comments and interest after
Paulsen posted the photos to a
Lyttelton community group on
Facebook.
Paulsen said: “This is a good
way for social media to be used
for the positive, bringing a smile
to people who see the photo,
them maybe recognising the
person or the place.”
He was inspired to try this
idea after his mother had given
him several photo albums.
After digging around, he had
found photos of old landmarks
of his youth, including the photo
taken outside Lyttelton Primary
School.
“I still have a strong bond to
the school and its landscape.
When I walk through the
grounds today, I have many
memories,” he said.
THEN AND NOW: Jordan Paulsen stands outside Lyttelton
Primary School in 1995 and 2021.
“This is a cool way to recreate
the fun you had as a child,
looking at where it started versus
how it’s going now.”
Paulsen was born and bred in
Lyttelton in 1989. In fact he is
the fifth generation of his family
to have lived there.
He grew up in the village,
leaving for Sydney when he was
18 where he lived for 10 years.
He moved back to Lyttelton at
the beginning of 2020.
Paulsen said: “Although
time passes, your heart always
remains in the spot where you
grew up with friends and family.
My emotional and spiritual
connection with Lyttelton has
always been there.”
Most of his family still live in
Lyttelton and he still has friends
from his days at Lyttelton Main
School.
Paulsen hopes that this may
inspire other locals to recreate
images from their childhood
too, taking valuable time to
reflect on how things have
changed.
“I’m sure that there are many
locals old and new who could
recreate images too,’’ he said.
• Send us your ‘then and
now’ recreated photos
from childhood. Email
samantha.mythen@starmedia.kiwi
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