Winding back the clock on Google Street View can reveal some interesting insights into how a city has changed.
Some views alter little over time, with just a gradual evolution.
But it's a different story in Swansea's The Kingsway, possibly the city's most ever changing road.
Generations of people from Swansea and the surrounding area have spent tens of thousands of nights out at the well-known nightspots in The Kingsway.
The road was once home to three superclubs , Oceana, Jumpin’ Jaks and Escape, where revellers danced the night away at foam parties after a few drinks elsewhere.
All have now gone.
If you take a trip to Google Street View, a useful tool allows you to scroll back through time, to earlier views of an area.
And the images of The Kingsway show the decline of the once-popular clubs which were the places to be in Swansea from the '90s to the early '2000s, along with a gradual change in thinking about how traffic and pedestrian should navigate this busy area.
Slide to the left on the image below to see a Google Street View picture of when Jumpin' Jaks and Oceana were both still open in 2008, push the slider to the right to reveal a Street View image from 2016 when both clubs had closed.
The old Odeon cinema building, which housed Oceana and Jumpin’ Jaks, has now been knocked down to make way for the ambitious £12m digital village .
The site had long been used to entertain the people of Swansea.
Plaza Cinema opened there in 1931, it was the largest cinema in Wales when it was built but was knocked down in 1967 and replaced by the Odeon.
Push the slider left on the top image to show Oceana when it was still a popular nightspot in 2008 and push it right reveal the building covered in scaffolding in 2017, at the beginning of its demolition.
The second slider image shows the transformation as the Oceana building was gradually demolished between April, 2017, and May, 2018. Slide right to see the site as it is now.
Some drivers have claimed that the lanes are too narrow while work takes place, but the council has said the aim is for a more pedestrian-friendly space, and pointed out a 20mph limit is in force.
Push the slider left on this image to see the Kingsway where it joins Portland Street in 2008. You can see the two way bus lane on the left hand side of the picture and the one way lane for cars on the right. Sliding to the right unveils the road as it was last year - you can clearly see the extensive construction work, which is due to be finished in November.
The local authority has said construction is going ahead as planned after the original contractor, Dawnus, pulled out in March.
The work, which includes a park area with trees and benches at the intersection of Princess Way and The Kingsway, is still on track to be completed by Swansea Council’s mid-November deadline.
But, unfortunately, the Street View images don't stretch back to some of the previous alterations to the street.
There was once a large roundabout at the top of The Kingsway, at the junction with Princess Way, with a multi-exit and entry pedestrian underpass, but that vanished in 2006.
In 2009, the infamous bendy buses were finally introduced in Swansea, after delays and the adaptation of The Kingsway into a two-lane, one-way system for traffic on one side, and two-way for the ftrMetro on the other, work that meant months of excavations there.
The buses were scrapped, however, in 2015, after they were branded too expensive to run. The decision also followed the deaths of two people when they were hit by buses in The Kingsway.
Google Maps shows the metal barriers that were added to the central reservation in 2015, immediately after the second death on the road, to try to stop people crossing except at the designated points.
At both inquests, the ‘counter-intuitive’ layout of the road system was cited as a contributing factor in the deaths of Daniel Foss and Louise Lucas, an off-duty police sergeant whose daughter was also injured in the incident.
The bendy buses ran for six years and cost the taxpayer £14 million.
We await to see what Google Street View images of the future will reveal about the eventual fate of The Kingsway.